bayberry
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Etymology
Noun
bayberry (plural bayberries)
- (Canada, US) The fruit of the wax myrtle shrub; or the plant itself (Morella cerifera), with aromatic, leathery leaves and waxy berries.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- 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.
- Other species in the family Myricaceae, especially in genus Myrica; bay-rum tree, candleberry.
- The fruit of the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis).
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, section XLIII:
- [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.
- West Indian bay tree (Pimenta racemosa), a tropical American shrub with aromatic leaves that are used in the preparation of bay rum.
Synonyms
- (Morella cerifera): wax myrtle
- (species in the family Myricaceae): candleberry, wax myrtle
Derived terms
- Asian bayberry (Nageia nagi)
- bayberry tallow (Myrica cerifera)
- bayberry waxtree (Myrica cerifera)
- bayberry willow (Salix myricoides)
- California bayberry (Myrica californica)
- Chinese bayberry (Morella rubra, syn. Myrica rubra)
- faya bayberry (Myrica faya)
- Japanese bayberry (Morella rubra)
- northern bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica)
- red bayberry (Morella rubra)
- scentless bayberry (Myrica inodora)
- Sierra bayberry (Myrica hartwegii)
- southern bayberry (Myrica caroliniensis, Myrica cerifera)
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