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ˈwax-ˌberry
A name given to the fruit of certain plants and also to the plants themselves. a. The genus Myrica, esp. M. cerifera of North America (bayberry 2) and M. cordifolia, native to South Africa. b. = snow-berry 2 (Webster 1911).
1835Moodie Ten Yrs. S. Afr. II. 197, I occasionally employed my people at spare times in gathering wax-berries, that..yield a substance partaking of the nature of wax and tallow, which is mixed with common tallow, and used by the colonists for making candles. 1855W. A. Newman Biogr. Mem. J. Montagu vii. 169 Parts of the reclaimed soil..were not found suitable for the waxberry-bush. 1892Stevenson In South Seas iv. vi. (1900) 328 Tamaiti..returned with coco tinder, dry leaves, and a spray of waxberry. 1897E. Glanville Tales fr. Veld xiii. 100, I..found him peacefully employed boiling down wax berries for the manufacture of candles. 1953[see kankerbos, kankerbossie]. |