holm
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The Tree of Freedom in Rab, Croatia, is a 105-year-old holm oak that stands as a symbol of community and heritage.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2025
Purple crocus flowers bloomed in groves of holm oak, and broom shrubs burst with yellow blooms.
From Washington Post • May 13, 2022
Between these tiny towns, expanses of golden wheat and grassland, punctuated by lone, broad-canopied holm and cork oaks, bring to mind the African savannah.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 10, 2018
As does most of the world’s cork; the region’s famous black-footed pigs fatten themselves up on acorns that drop from the cork and holm oaks looming over the Alentejo’s gently rolling hills.
From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2011
Eight and a half kilometers: a journey that would’ve taken an hour in the stomach-churning ferry that had brought me to Cairn- holm weeks ago.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
