What does ilex mean?
Ilex means Holm oak (Quercus ilex)..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Holm oak (Quercus ilex)..
There is a point of strand / Near Vada's tower and town; and on one side / The treacherous marsh divides it from the land, / Shadowed by pine and ilex forests wide, / And on the other creeps eternally, / Through muddy weeds, the shallow, sullen sea.
Many nights, though autumnal mists were spread around, I passed under an ilex—many times I have supped on arbutus berries and chestnuts, making a fire, gypsylike, on the ground […]
Sometimes I lost track of them and had to hunt round in a circle, thrusting through sharp-scented bushes, scratching myself on various plants which were still new to me: resinaceous rock-roses, juniper, ilex [translating chênes verts], yellow and white asphodel.
Use ilex when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ilex means Holm oak (Quercus ilex)..
Common synonyms include genus ilex.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
There is a point of strand / Near Vada's tower and town; and on one side / The treacherous marsh divides it from the land, / Shadowed by pine and ilex forests wide, / And on the other creeps eternally, / Through muddy weeds, the shallow, sullen sea.
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