basils
USBAY-zuhlz/ˈbeɪ.zəlz/UK · AUSBAZ-uhlz/ˈbæz.əlz/
- 1Plural of basil.
The herb bed held several basils, ranging from sweet to Thai varieties.
Two of the basils had bolted to flower in the summer heat.
Note
A plural that appears only once basil stops being a mass noun. As a herb on the plate or a plant in the bed, basil usually takes no plural; you say basils when you count separate plants or different species of Ocimum. The same spelling also serves the word's countable trade senses: the angles a joiner's tools are ground to, sheepskins tanned with bark, and an obsolete kind of cannon.
basils is a form of basil
basil, noun: The aromatic leaves of the basil plant, used as a culinary herb to season food. Full entry
- Forms
- basilbasils plural
- Spelling
- basil → basils: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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