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Definition of Bay myrtle
1. Noun. Evergreen aromatic shrubby tree of southeastern United States having small hard berries thickly coated with white wax used for candles.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bay Myrtle
Literary usage of Bay myrtle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bailliere's Tasmanian Gazetteer and Road Guide: Containing the Most Recent by Robert Percy Whitworth (1877)
"Kent) is a small rocky islet in the S. part of Recherche Bay, opposite Rocky Bay.
MYRTLE BANK (Co. Dorset) is a postal village in the police and electoral ..."
2. A New School Dictionary of the English Language: Embracing a Carefully by Joseph Emerson Worcester (1908)
"Вау'о-në^ п. A short dagger fixed to a musket. Bay'ou (bi'ô), ». An outlet of a
river; a creek, and oil of bay-myrtle. ..."
3. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"Of cultivated trees, olive date-palm bay myrtle a kind of fir and cypress are
evergreen, and among wild trees silver-fir fir Phoenician cedar ..."
4. The Nineteenth Century (1896)
"After a few seasons they become anaemic, dry up, and slowly perish, whilst the
aspect of the gardens of which the bay, myrtle, box, laurel, arbutus, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"At the same time, the luxuriant undergrowth of rhododendrons and azaleas, besides
bay, myrtle, arbutus, and other flourishing shrubs, gives a special charm ..."
6. The Civil War in Song and Story: 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"Ye grapes and mistletoe that climb upon the tree», and droop from overhanging
boughs, bend duwt. and kiss her lonely grave I Bay, myrtle/, and magnolia, ..."
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