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Wax Myrtle

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Noun

1. wax myrtle

any shrub or small tree of the genus Myrica with aromatic foliage and small wax-coated berries

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Wax Myrtle

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noun
a shrub, Myrica cerifera, of SE North America, having evergreen leaves and a small berry-like fruit with a waxy coating: family Myricaceae
. Also called: bayberry, candleberry, waxberry

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Wax Myrtle

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an evergreen bayberry (Myrica cerifera) native to E North America and having grayish-white berries coated with a wax used for candles

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Wax Myrtle

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n.
Any of several evergreen shrubs or small trees of the genus Myrica, especially M. cerifera of the southeast United States, having aromatic leaves and small berrylike fruit with a waxy coating.

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