wax-berryn.
/ˈwaksb(ə)ri/, /ˈwaksˌbɛri/, U.S. /ˈwæksˌbɛri/ 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 n. 2) and M. cordifolia, native to South Africa; (b) = snowberry n. 2 (Webster 1911).
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galec1000
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candle-tree1692
candleberry tree1731
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myrica1791
wax-tree1791
wax-plant1801
wax-myrtle1813
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tallow-bush1835
wax-berry1835
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > other berries
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wax-berry1835
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1835 J. W. D. Moodie Ten Years 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.
1855 W. A. Newman Biogr. Mem. J. Montagu vii. 169 Parts of the reclaimed soil..were not found suitable for the waxberry-bush.
a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) iv. vi. 354 Tamaiti..returned with coco tinder, dry leaves, and a spray of waxberry.
1897 E. Glanville Tales from Veld xiii. 100 I..found him peacefully employed boiling down wax berries for the manufacture of candles.
1953 Cape Times 14 July 2/7 These [sc. existing plantings] will be followed by the introduction of more woody species, such as bitou, blombos, kankerbossie and waxberrie.
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