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ilexes

ilexes is the plural of ilex.

Meaning of ilex

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

Questions about ilexes

What is ilexes the plural of?
Ilexes is the plural of ilex.

Words near ilexes in the dictionary

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

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