Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A shrub having waxy fruit, such as a wax myrtle or a snowberry of the genus Symphoricarpos.
- noun The fruit of any of these plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The bayberry, Myrica cerifera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The wax-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. See
bayberry , andcandleberry tree .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
bayberry . - noun The
snowberry . - noun The
yangmei .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries
- noun deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries
Etymologies
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wax + berry
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Examples
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Tamaiti himself disappeared a while in the bush and returned with coco tinder, dry leaves, and a spray of waxberry.
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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I tried the waxberry juice at Pizzahut and I bought soft dried waxberries in the small supermarket next to the hotel I stayed at.
Anne's Food 2009
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In it, he become a counselor butterwort as the misstatement to metaphysical dogwood and as the achaean homophobia of waxberry bibliopolic on his earthy duplication.
Rational Review 2009
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