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ilex

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Borrowed from Latin ilex (“holm oak”).

noun ilexes · ilices

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

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@misc{ilex_2026,
  title = {ilex},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ilex},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}