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WAX MYRTLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wax myrtle mean?
• WAX MYRTLE (noun)
The noun WAX MYRTLE has 1 sense:
1. any shrub or small tree of the genus Myrica with aromatic foliage and small wax-coated berries
Familiarity information: WAX MYRTLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any shrub or small tree of the genus Myrica with aromatic foliage and small wax-coated berries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("wax myrtle" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Meronyms (substance of "wax myrtle"):
bayberry tallow; bayberry wax (a fragrant green wax obtained from the wax myrtle and used in making candles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wax myrtle"):
bay myrtle; Myrica cerifera; puckerbush (evergreen aromatic shrubby tree of southeastern United States having small hard berries thickly coated with white wax used for candles)
bayberry; candleberry; Myrica pensylvanica; swamp candleberry; waxberry (deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries)
Holonyms ("wax myrtle" is a member of...):
genus Myrica; Myrica (deciduous aromatic shrubs or small trees)
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