bayberry
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- noun
- /ˈbeɪˌbɛri/
- US
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mirtillo
- The ground is covered with rock and patchy grass, though just beyond the lighthouse, along the road to town, many bushes thrive: sumac, wild roses, beach plums, bayberry, junipers.
- bayberry candle
Taking a herbal supplement like berberine which comes from bayberry leaf would be another good option for you.
- Taking a herbal supplement like berberine which comes from bayberry leaf would be another good option for you.
- Scarlet sumac, bayberry, bittersweet scent of my waxy Wick, autumn mist, a security blanket to bleed out into.
Examples
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Shawn brought out matches and lit his ugly bayberry candle.
Fiction book (2000) -
Behind the logs, I piled leaf rot and soil barrowed over from the side lots, and planted bayberry, rugosa roses, and young cedars from the shoreline, as well as mosses from the woods.
Fiction book (1990) -
Taking a herbal supplement like berberine which comes from bayberry leaf would be another good option for you.
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You leave a bayberry candle on your screened porch in that weather, and it melts like a stick of butter.
Blog text (27) -
Ragweed and bayberry bushes whisked the Buick's sides.
Fiction book (1997) -
He had brought a bayberry-scented candle as a house gift, in a spun-glass vessel made to resemble a Druid.
Fiction book (2000) -
Scarlet sumac, bayberry, bittersweet scent of my waxy Wick, autumn mist, a security blanket to bleed out into.
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As the boy draws closer, he steps from the road into the thickets of bayberry and juniper, vaguely troubled by the expanse of landscape and the brilliance of the light, though no longer by his own solitude.
Fiction book (1999) -
Abigail and her brother, George, were gathering bayberries to make candles.
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Next summer, bayberries would once again grow along the Maryland coast.
Synonyms
A shrub with gray-green waxy berries and scented leaves
A small bush with scented, waxy berries used to make candles
A bush with grey-green waxy berries that smell nice
A shrub that loses its leaves each year and has white waxy berries
A small tree or shrub with scented leaves and berries used to make wax, like bayberry
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word bayberry comes from the words bay and berry, where bay points to the plant's fragrant leaves and berry means 'small round fruit'. So the name fits the shrub with scented leaves and grey-green, waxy berries that people used for candles and perfume.