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ilices

ilices 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 ilices

What is ilices the plural of?
Ilices is the plural of ilex.

Words near ilices in the dictionary

  1. Ilian Poblacion
  2. Iliana
  3. Ilians
  4. Iliaura
  5. Ilic
  6. ilices
  7. ilicic acid
  8. ilicicolin
  9. ilicicolins
  10. ilicin
  11. Ilics

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