Myrtle - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: myrtleMyrtle
A species of the genus Myrtus especially Myrtus communis The common myrtle has a shrubby upright stem eight or ten feet high Its branches form a close full head thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers followed by black several seeded berries The ancients considered it sacred to Venus The flowers leaves and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment and the beautifully mottled wood is used in turning...
Myrtiform
Resembling myrtle or myrtle berries having the form of a myrtle leaf...
Myrtaceae
A natural family of trees and shrubs yielding fragrant oils including the myrtles eucalyptus clove allspice and guava the myrtle family...
bogbean
a perennial plant of Europe and America Menyanthes trifoliata having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves often rooting at the water margin and spreading across the surface called also bog myrtle water shamrock and marsh trefoil...
Candleberry tree
A shrub the Myrica cerifera or wax bearing myrtle common in North America the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax which was formerly used for hardening candles also called bayberry tree bayberry or candleberry...
crape myrtle
an tall East Indian and Chinese shrub Lagerstroemia indica of the loosestrife family commonly planted in Southern and Western U S as an ornamental shrub It has clusters of red white purple or pink flowers...
Leiophyllum
A genus having only one species the sand myrtle...
VerbarMyrcia
A large genus of tropical American trees and shrubs nearly related to the true myrtles Myrtus from which they differ in having very few seeds in each berry...
VerbarMyrica
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...
Myrtaceous
Of pertaining to or resembling a large and important natural family of trees and shrubs Myrtaceaelig of the order Myrtales of which the myrtle Myrtus is the type It includes the genera Eucalyptus Pimenta Lechythis and about seventy more...
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