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Plex vs Ilex - What's the difference?

plex | ilex |

As nouns the difference between plex and ilex

is that plex is (canada) a low-rise apartment building while ilex is holm oak (quercus ilex ).

plex

English

Noun

(es)
  • (Canada) A low-rise apartment building.
  • * 2001 , Thomas F. McIlwraith, Edward K. Muller, North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent (page 457)
  • Most new housing has taken the form of single-family dwellings, not plexes , and levels of home ownership have risen steadily.
  • * 2004 , Richard Harris, Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960 (page 34)
  • English-style terraced houses or the cheaper type of Montreal plexes that opened directly onto the street made such a way of life possible, but just barely.

    ilex

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • holm oak (Quercus ilex )
  • Any of the numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Ilex