Ilex
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ilex is a noun meaning Holm oak (Quercus ilex).
Meaning
Holm oak (Quercus ilex).
More Meanings
- Any of the numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Ilex.
Example Sentences
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 […]
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.
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.
Word Forms
- ilexes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include holly, hypericum, miss, holm, holmoak, mossycup.
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