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Bayberry

noun
1.
West Indian tree; source of bay rum.  Synonyms: bay-rum tree, Jamaica bayberry, Pimenta acris, wild cinnamon.
2.
Deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries.  Synonyms: candleberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry.



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"Bayberry" Quotes from Famous Books



... might taste the salt in it. So thick that houses along the main road were but dim shapes behind its gray drapery, and only the gates and fences of the front yards were plainly in evidence to the passers-by. The beach plum and bayberry bushes on the dunes were spangled with beady drops. The pole on Cannon Hill, where the beacon was hoisted when the packet from Boston dropped anchor in the bay, was shiny and slippery. The new weathervane, a gilded whale, presented to the "Regular" church by Captain Zebedee Mayo, retired whaler, ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln



Words linked to "Bayberry" :   wax myrtle, Pimenta, tree, genus Pimenta



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