| 单词 | waxmyrtle |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswax-myrtle c. Now usually with distinguishing word: any of several shrubs of the genus Myrica (family Myricaceae), noted for their aromatic leaves; esp. (more fully bog myrtle, Dutch myrtle, etc.) the sweet gale, M. gale, and (more fully candleberry-myrtle, wax-myrtle) M. cerifera. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > myrica and allies > [noun] galec1000 Dutch myrtle1597 sweet willow1597 gow1598 sweet-gale1640 candle-tree1692 candleberry tree1731 tallow shrub1770 myrica1791 wax-tree1791 wax-plant1801 wax-myrtle1813 Comptonia1823 tallow-bush1835 wax-berry1835 sweet fern1849 bog myrtle1866 meadow fern1876 flea-wood1892 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1228 Myrtus Brabantica..Gaule, sweete Willow, or Dutch Myrtle tree. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1228 Gaule or the wilde Myrtle. 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. v. 13 In the Woods, without eyther the art or the helpe of man,..[grow] Mirtle, Saxifarilla, Bayes, &c. 1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia ii. 22 The Myrtle, bearing a Berry, of which they make a hard brittle wax. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 573/2 Broad leaved Dutch myrtle, with spear-shaped, sharp pointed, dark-green leaves. 1826 N. T. Carrington Dartmoor 176 Holne Chace..in swampy spots abounding with the myrica gale or Devonshire myrtle. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 770/1 M[yrica] Gale, the Sweet Gale or Bog Myrtle, and the badge of the Campbells. 1897 G. B. Sudworth Nomencl. Arborescent Flora U.S. 117 Myrica californica... Myrtle. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 805/1 Myricaceae, bog myrtle. 1984 P. Matthiessen Indian Country ii. 60 A short-eared owl rose from a low bush and flopped away over the green wall of salt bush and wax myrtle. 1994 A. Cleave Field Guide Trees Brit., Europe & N. Amer. 132/1 Myrtle Myrica faya... A native of some of the Atlantic islands where it occurs in the drier zones of broad-leaved evergreen forests. wax-myrtle wax-myrtle n. = wax-berry n. (a). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > myrica and allies > [noun] galec1000 Dutch myrtle1597 sweet willow1597 gow1598 sweet-gale1640 candle-tree1692 candleberry tree1731 tallow shrub1770 myrica1791 wax-tree1791 wax-plant1801 wax-myrtle1813 Comptonia1823 tallow-bush1835 wax-berry1835 sweet fern1849 bog myrtle1866 meadow fern1876 flea-wood1892 1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. iii. 84 Wax..is procured in abundance from the berries of the wax myrtle. 1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. (10th Census IX) 136 Myrica cerifera..Bayberry. Wax Myrtle. < as lemmas |
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