myrtle /mûrˈtl/

1. Any of various evergreen shrubs of the genus Myrtus, with beautiful and fragrant leaves
2. Extended to various other plants, some near related, others not, eg a kind of beech in Australia (see also under bog, wax¹)

myrˈtle-wax noun

Wax from the candleberry

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