Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The bayberry or wax-myrtle, Myrica cerifera.
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Examples
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"There is a plant here from the berries of which they make a kind of wax or tallow, and for that reason the Swedes call it the tallow-shrub.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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