Ilex

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    Any of the numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Ilex.

Synonyms

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evergreen oakgenus ilexhollyholmholm oak

Example

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"Breached and battered, the ruin stands in a grove of ilex on a very beautiful promontory."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ilex (“holm oak”).

Related phrases

holm oakquercus ilex

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