ilex|ilexes in English

noun

[i·lex || 'aɪleks]

any tree or shrub from the genus Ilex; holm oak, species of European oak with glossy spiny leaves

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1. Acilóne, the Akehorne or mast of the Ilex or Huluer-tree

2. Harvest Bellsor Soapwort Genet: 91: Balduina angustifolia (Yellow Buttons) #1: 94: Drosera capillaris (Pink Sundew) #1: 94: Halesia diptera 'Magniflora' (Large-Flowered Silverbell) g: 91: Ilex decidua (Possumhaw) #1: 94: Ilex glabra (Gallberry, Inkberry)

3. Atlantic acidophilous beech forests with Ilex and sometimes also Taxus in the shrublayer (Quercion robori-petraeae or Ilici-Fagenion)

4. Kāwaʻu ( Ilex Anomala) is the only indigenous member of the Holly family (Aquifoliaceae) native to the Hawaiian Islands

5. On 13 July 1943, with the help of Ilex, she sank the Italian submarine Nereide south east of the Straits of Messina.

6. There are many more exciting Broadleaved evergreens to see, such as the rhododendron look-alike, Daphniphyllum macropodum or our trusty American holly, Ilex opaca

7. Birdlime definition is - a sticky substance usually made from the bark of a holly (Ilex aquifolium) that is smeared on twigs to snare small birds.

8. Terpene concentration and emission were studied in potted plants of some of the most common Mediterranean woody species (Pinus halepensis L., Pistacia lentiscus L., Cistus albidus L., Cistus monspeliensis L., Quercus ilex L., Quercus coccifera L., Phillyrea latifolia L., Phillyrea angustifolia L., and Arbutus unedo L.) under irrigation and under severe drought conditions that dropped relative water content to a range between 40% in Q. ilex and 85% in Phillyrea latifolia after withholding watering for one dry summer week.

9. On the basis of the observations and the records presented, it is remarked that in the Southern Apennines and in Sicily the forests ofQuercus ilex are prevalently localised in the altimetrical band included between 650–700 and 900–950 m.

10. A few of the many plants introduced to western cultivation from his first expedition include Acer griseum, Actinidia deliciosa (kiwi fruit), Berberis julianae, Clematis armandii, Clematis montana var. rubens, Davidia involucrata, Ilex pernyi, Jasminum mesnyi, and Primula pulverulenta.

11. 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 10 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, gypsy-like, on the ground […]· Epigaea repens, the mayflower, the trailing Arbutus

12. "When the heart is thus Birdlimed , then it cleaves to everything it meets with." Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia n birdlime A viscous substance prepared from the inner bark of the holly, Ilex Aquifolium, used for entangling small birds in order to capture them, twigs being smeared with it at places where birds resort or are likely to alight.

13. In the last years the production range has been enlarged, keeping the existing production: acidophil plants, flowering shrubs and little trees. So now you can find on our catalogue Acer dissectum and palmatum, Azalea mollis, Berries (Bilberry - Redcurrant - Goostberry), Euonimus, Hebe, Hydrangea (Hortensia), Ilex, Kalmia, Leucothoe, Magnolia, Mahonia, Nandina, Osmanthus, Phormium, Photinia, Pieris, Prunus Laurocerasu, Rhyncospermum (Trachelospermum), Sciadopytis, Skimmia, Viburnum tinus.