Ilex is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ILEX in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a tree or shrub of the holly family; the holm oak
• the holm oak.
• a tree or shrub of a genus that includes holly and its relatives.
• any of a genus of trees or shrubs that includes holly
• The holm oak (Quercus Ilex).
• A genus of evergreen trees and shrubs, including the common holly.
• a large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a holly

Words related to ILEX

ilexes13 ilices8

Words that contain ILEX

silex12 ilexes13 silexes14

How to use ILEX in a sentence

• XI The July sun enclosed in a ring of fire the ilex grove of a villa in the hills near Siena.
• An aged ilex, spreading from the sides of the rock, and bending over the edifice, covers the roof with its ever verdant foliage.
• An ilex growing from its interstices seemed to live on its wits, for not an ounce of soil was visible for its subsistence.
• There are the oak and the opaque ilex, the pine and the poplar, the dark, funereal cypress, the bright flower of the too-short-lived rose, and the sweet-scented bed of violets.
• Portofino, for instance, with its great pine and the ilex woods, its terraced walk and the sea, not the lake of Rapallo, but the sea itself, full of strength and wisdom.
• Scholastica, till a small gate admits us to the famous immemorial Ilex Grove of St.
• One may still find scattered oak, ilex, chestnut, and pine interspersed with ferns and aromatic herbs.
• The silver of water, the dark shapes of yew and ilex trees remained, at all hours and seasons, the dominant features of the scene.
• The profound shade of a giant ilex tree engulfed him.
• It consisted of dense olive groves around the villages and a much thinner growth of ilex in the tracts between.
• The alley led into a crowded, narrow street, bordered with shops of many-coloured wares, which at that point was partly shaded by a fine old ilex tree.
• He gathers the ilex woods together and throngs them close, as a sheep-dog gathers the sheep.
• The gardens take shelter behind the scared and hurried ilex woods, and the sea-wind spares them and breaks upon the mountain.
• The chief woods used were cedar, pine, elm, olive, ash, ilex, beech, and maple.
• Tom could distinguish the black mass of the great ilex trees on the right.
• The great ilex trees were immobile, fixed as the eternal stars overhead.
• The dead black mass of the great ilex trees looked to touch the low hanging sky.
• Various other species of Ilex are sometimes employed in other parts of South America for a similar purpose.
• Ferns and mosses were abundant, Ilex! Daphne papyracea.
• Here also Carduacea, and Onosmoid angustifolia occur! In this ravine, Xanthoxylon of Kojhuk, a willow, Rosa, and a distinct Ilex, occur, forming chiefly a shrubby vegetation.
• My next step was to choose and cut a tolerably straight staff of ilex, about five feet in length and close upon two inches thick.
• The thickets of ilex that shade off these wooded reaches into the treeless prairie are the resort of many partridges.

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