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Kex vs Kes - What's the difference?

kex | kes |

As nouns the difference between kex and kes

is that kex is the dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants while kes is the kestrel.

kex

English

Alternative forms

* kix

Noun

(kexes)
  • The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
  • (obsolete, botany) A plant having such a stem; a weed, a kecksy.
  • (rare) A dry husk or covering.
  • * 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, pp. 100-101:
    • On the bedside table a new package of cigarettes and a traveling clock had for neighbor a nicely wrapped box containing the green figurine of a girl skier which shone through the double kix .
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    kes

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK) the kestrel.
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