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Bayberry

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A deciduous, eastern North American shrub (Myrica pensylvanica) having aromatic foliage and small globose fruits with a waxy covering used for making fragrant candles.

n. The fruit of this tree.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Common name of the plants in the genus Myrica, a North American shrub with aromatic leather leaves and waxy berries.

n. A tropical American shrub with aromatic leaves that are used in the preparation of bay rum.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis.

n. A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle (Pimenta acris).

n. The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The fruit of the bay-tree, or Laurus nobilis.

n. The wax-myrtle, Myrica cerifera, and its fruit.

n. In Jamaica, the Pimenta acris, from which an oil is obtained which is used in the manufacture of bay-rum.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. West Indian tree; source of bay rum

n. deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries

Word Usage

"He attempted to bring back the game's naturalist approach by using only native plants—pitch pine, shad, scrub oak, bayberry and wild blueberry—and incorporating structural elements of the old racetrack."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

tree wax myrtle

Variant

candleberry tree

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

wax myrtle candleberry

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