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Definition of Myrica
1. Noun. Deciduous aromatic shrubs or small trees.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Myricaceae, Myricaceae, Wax-myrtle Family
Member holonyms: Myrica Gale, Scotch Gale, Sweet Gale, Wax Myrtle
Definition of Myrica
1. n. A widely dispersed genus of shrubs and trees, usually with aromatic foliage. It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle, the sweet gale, and the North American sweet fern, so called.
Definition of Myrica
1. Noun. (botany) Any of the genus ''Myrica'' of shrubs and trees. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Myrica
1. a medicinal tree bark [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Myrica
Literary usage of Myrica
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1855)
"Fee says, in relation to the myrica, that it would seem that the ancients ...
To this, he says, is owing the fact that Dioscorides calls the myrica a tree, ..."
2. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1876)
"93, TV, Fig. 7, whose lobes are also of the same form. It is much larger, however,
too large it seems for a Myrica. By the form of the leaf it is comparable ..."
3. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"Myrica californica. Nat. size. midrib and several slender nerves ascending from
near the base (probably best seen when the cotyledons are fading), ..."
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