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How to use ilex in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word ilex? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
It is made from the dried, pulverized bodies of a scale insect, Coccus ilicis, which is a parasite on an ilex oak, the kermes oak.
Areas of granite and sandstone became colonized by maquis, a low, dense cover of ilex, briars, broom, tree heathers, and laurels.
Then later on, with perhaps ten miles behind you, Paco and Pajarito will be there beneath the ilex trees with a couple of large cold boxes.
It has cypress and ilex and olive trees to set in picturesque contrast against the bleached earth.
Then add a single tall stem of red ilex berries for the final touch.
The civic coat of arms of the town shoes an ilex tree with a she-wolf at its feet.
On the civic coat of arms of Surbo there is a she-wolf, an ilex tree and a blue and grey background.
The white oaks Q. robur, Q. petraea, Q. suber and Q. ilex are very important forest and plantation trees in the EPPO region.
The latter is a veritable earthly paradise, mantled in beech and ilex trees, as well as chestnut woods.
Only for Quercus ilex the health status remained constant.
In August 2005, the last trees for this large project were delivered: an Alnus spaethii in the size 60-70 and ten Quercus ilex in the size 45-50 on a coconut rootball.
Vegetative features such as wood anatomy and cuticular structure also favor the initial assignment to the genus Ilex.
American Holly Ilex opaca, a small tree or large shrub, can grow up to 60 feet tall.
If you only have room for one, some varieties are self-fertile and will produce berries, such as Ilex Aquifolium 'JC van Tol', which gives an abundance of bright red berries.
Examples from Classical Literature
But it was as if he had made the attempt upon the trunk of the ilex itself.
The sacred island, I suppose, on the other side of a bridge of boats, covered with what seems a scrub of ilex and lentisk.
The most common plants that it contains are included in the genera ilex and Prinos.
The most important of those that remained was the prophetic ilex grove upon the Aventine hill, sacred to Faunus and Picus.
The ilex I know, and there is no more beautiful tree than the ilex.
The holm oak, ilex, is so called from its holly-like leaves.
With Druidism departed the forests of the ilex and the quercus from aran.
Sweet as any aubade of the olden time, under olive and ilex, is it not?
We tied our pony to an ilex and went to explore the Hermitage.
Outside, in the ilex wood, birds were calling to one another.
The grove of ilex trees is termed the Sacred Grove of Bacchus.
Prinos verticillatus, 1857, now placed with Ilex by Gray, 2d ed.
Ilex is the classical name of the evergreen oak in southern Europe.
This is usually the case with Ilex, escallonia, and Cydonia.
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