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bayberry

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bay=ber=ry

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun bayberry has 2 senses

bayberry(n = noun.plant) bay-rum tree, jamaica bayberry, pimenta acris, wild cinnamon - West Indian tree; source of bay rum; Array

is a member of genus pimenta, pimenta

is a kind of tree

bayberry(n = noun.plant) candleberry, myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry - deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries; Array

is a kind of wax myrtle

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CIDE DICTIONARY

bayberry, n.

The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis. [1913 Webster]

Bayberry tallow, a fragrant green wax obtained from the bayberry or wax myrtle; -- called also myrtle wax.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

bayberry, n. (pl. -ies) any of various N. American plants of the genus Myrica, having aromatic leaves and bearing berries covered in a wax coating.

Etymology

BAY(2) + BERRY

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