Ilex, huios ilicis, pen. cor. fœm. gen. Virg.A tree called of some holme. Dne kind of it beareth the geaine, of Apothicaries cal led kirmes.Arguta ilex. Virgil. Wherein the small byrdes singe: the shril holme.Coruscis ilicibus fremit Apenninus. Virgil. The mountaine Apinnine hath a nayse of the boughs of hulme rnshling & shaking with winde.Crebris ilicibus nigrum nemus. Vir. Curuata glandibus ilex.Ouid.Frondex ilex. Vir. Icta securibus ilex. Virg.Littorea.Virg. Nigra. Virg.Opaca. Vir. Plena fauis. Claud. Procera. Hor. Ramosa. Ouid.Tonsa bipennibus. Hor. Trementes ilices frang it Aquilo. Hor. Viridis ilex Ouid. Vitiosa. Virg.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
īlex, ĭcis, f., a kind of oak, the holmoak or great scarlet oak (cf. quercus, aesculus, robur), Quercus ilex, Linn.; Plin. 16, 6, 8, 19; 16, 8, 12, 32; 16, 18, 30, 73; Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 194 Vahl.); Verg. E. 7, 1; id. A. 12, 702; Hor. C. 3, 13, 14; Ov. M. 1, 112; 8, 237: arbor felix, Macr. S. 3, 20, 2 et saep.—Poet.: porcus ilice pastus, i. e.