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Bayberry
noun
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Noun
- 1 The fruit of the wax myrtle shrub; or the plant itself (Morella cerifera), with aromatic, leathery leaves and waxy berries. Canada, US
"It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn."
- 2 deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries wordnet
- 3 The fruit of the wax myrtle shrub; or the plant itself (Morella cerifera), with aromatic, leathery leaves and waxy berries.; Other species in the family Myricaceae, especially in genus Myrica; bay-rum tree, candleberry. Canada, US
"The two North American genera are Myrica (bayberry) and Comptonia (sweet-fern)."
- 4 West Indian tree; source of bay rum wordnet
- 5 The fruit of the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis).
"[T]heir shape was much like a Figg, but very much smaller, some being about the bigness of a Bay-berry, others, and the biggest, of a Hazel-Nut."
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- 6 West Indian bay tree (Pimenta racemosa), a tropical American shrub with aromatic leaves that are used in the preparation of bay rum.
Etymology
From bay + berry.
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