The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Most basils are technically all the same plant, Ocimum basilicum, and the most common variety is “sweet basil,” the fluffy green leaves you take home in a plastic clamshell or as a doomed houseplant.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
Visitors can choose one free plant from multiple varieties of tomatoes, peppers, basils, herbs, succulents, house plants and pollinators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
And fetching a deep sigh, he gazes on the drooping sweet basils in silence.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
Taking up a couple of large stones which lay near, Jack tried to beat the round basils of the fetters into an oval form, so as to enable him to slip his heels through them.
From Jack Sheppard A Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth
