| 单词 | ilex |
| 释义 | ilex|ˈaɪlɛks|
Also 6–8 ilix.
[a. L. īlex, īlic-em holm-oak.]
1. The holm-oak or evergreen oak (Quercus Ilex).
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxxxiii. (1495) 654 Ilex is a manere oke, a tree that beeryth maste. 1506Sir R. Guylforde Pilgr. (Camden) 53 The tre called Ilex, that then stode byfore Abrahams dore is now wasted. 1601Holland Pliny I. 458 Of the Ilex or mast-Holme tree, there be two sorts. 1768Boswell Corsica i. (ed. 2) 45 The Ilex, or ever-green oak, is very common here. 1787P. Beckford Lett. fr. Italy (1805) I. 416 (Stanf.) A beautiful wood, enlivened in winter by the ilix and the cork tree, both ever⁓greens. 1789G. White Selborne lxi. (1875) 302 The ilexes were much injured. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. viii. 216 Tabor, with..its base skirted with dwarf oak, ilexes, and arbutus.
b. attrib. and Comb.
1829Southey Sir T. More Ded. 6 Spain's mountain passes, and her ilex woods. 1860W. G. Clark in Vac. Tour. 61 A steep ilex-clothed hill. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. iii. 92, I went..for a walk through its ilex groves.
‖2. In modern Botany, the name of a genus of Aquifoliaceæ, comprising numerous trees and shrubs, of which the most familiar is the common holly (I. Aquifolium).
1565–73Cooper Thesaurus, Aquifolia, a wilde tree with pricking leaves..a kinde of Ilix. 1838Penny Cycl. XII. 443/1 Besides the common Holly.., the genus Ilex comprehends a large number of species. |
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