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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The waxy fruit of the wax myrtle or the snowberry.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The bayberry, Myrica cerifera.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The bayberry.
  2. n. The snowberry.
  3. n. The yangmei.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) The wax-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. See bayberry, and candleberry tree.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries
  2. n. deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries

Etymologies

  1. wax +‎ berry (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Tamaiti himself disappeared a while in the bush and returned with coco tinder, dry leaves, and a spray of waxberry.”

    In the South Seas

  • “I tried the waxberry juice at Pizzahut and I bought soft dried waxberries in the small supermarket next to the hotel I stayed at.”

    Anne's Food

  • “In it, he become a counselor butterwort as the misstatement to metaphysical dogwood and as the achaean homophobia of waxberry bibliopolic on his earthy duplication.”

    Rational Review

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