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ilex

ilex noun: holm oak (Quercus ilex).

ilex: holm oak (Quercus ilex)
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Noun

ilex (plural ilexes or ilices)

  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.1818 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mazenghi”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt...
    • 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 […]1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC
  2. Any of the numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Ilex.

ilex meaning in Tamil

ilex in Tamil

ilex
ஐலெக்சு ailekcu

Forms of ilex

pluralilexes
pluralilices

Origin of ilex

Borrowed from Latin ilex (“holm oak”).

Questions about ilex

What does ilex mean?
Ilex means holm oak (Quercus ilex).
What is ilex in Tamil?
Ilex in Tamil is ஐலெக்சு (ailekcu). See Ilex meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ilex?
Ilex is a noun.
What is the plural of ilex?
The plural of ilex is ilexes.

Words near ilex in the dictionary

  1. ilesite
  2. ileum
  3. ileums
  4. ileus
  5. ileuses
  6. ilex
  7. ilexes
  8. ilexoside
  9. ilexosides
  10. Ilfochrome
  11. Ilfochromes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ilex (page history and authors); ஐலெக்சு (Tamil) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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