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WAX MYRTLE

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 I. (noun) 

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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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