The bog-myrtle, Myrica Gale (the modern Latin specific name is adopted from English); also called sweet gale.
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| 释义 | the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > myrica and allies > [noun] (20) galec1000 The bog-myrtle, Myrica Gale (the modern Latin specific name is adopted from English); also called sweet gale. Dutch myrtle1597 Now usually with distinguishing word: any of several shrubs of the genus Myrica (family Myricaceae), noted for their aromatic leaves; esp. (more… sweet willow1597 (a) = sweet-bay willow n. (see willow, n.); (b) = sweet-gale, n. gow1598 Perhaps: = gale, n.1 sweet-gale1640 The bog myrtle, Myrica Gale. candle-tree1692 = Candleberry Myrtle. Hence candle-tree oil. candleberry tree1731 A name applied to the fruit of two plants and to the plants themselves. properly candleberry-myrtle n. (a) a shrub (Myrica cerifera) common in North… tallow shrub1770 a North American shrub, Myrica cerifera, also called bayberry, n. 2, candleberry, n. a(a), or wax-myrtle, whose fruit yields a wax-like substance (bay… myrica1791 A plant of the genus Myrica (family Myricaceae) of shrubs and small trees having aromatic foliage; esp. bog myrtle, Myrica gale, and wax myrtle, M… wax-tree1791 A name given to various trees, of different localities, yielding vegetable or insect wax; esp. The candleberry myrtle, Myrica cerifera, of North… wax-plant1801 A name given to various plants either yielding a vegetable wax or having a waxy appearance; esp. (a) the candleberry myrtle, Myrica cerifera; (b)… wax-myrtle1813 = wax-berry, n. (a). Comptonia1823 A genus of plants (family Myricaceæ) consisting of a single North American species, C. asplenifolia, the Sweet Fern of the United States; it is… tallow-bush1835 = tallow shrub n. wax-berry1835 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.… sweet fern1849 a name for two plants with fern-like leaves and aromatic scent: (a) locally in England, the sweet cicely, Myrrhis odorata (N.O. Umbelliferæ); (b) in… bog myrtle1866 Now usually with distinguishing word: any of several shrubs of the genus Myrica (family Myricaceae), noted for their aromatic leaves; esp. (more… meadow fern1876 regional. Either of two fragrant shrubs of the family Myricaceae, the bog myrtle, Myrica gale, of Eurasia and North America, and the closely allied… flea-wood1892 (see quot.). Subcategories:— fruit of (1) |
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