Myrica Cerifera
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Bayberry (Wiktionary)
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
From bay + berry.
Noun
bayberry (plural bayberries)
- (Canada, US) The fruit of the wax myrtle shrub; or the plant itself (Morella cerifera), with aromatic, leathery leaves and waxy berries.
- Other species in the family Myricaceae, especially in genus Myrica; bay-rum tree, candleberry.
- Other species in the family Myricaceae, especially in genus Myrica; bay-rum tree, candleberry.
- The fruit of the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis).
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, XLIII:
- [T]heir shape was much like a Figg, but very much smaller, some being about the bigness of a Bay-berry, others, and the biggest, of a Hazel-Nut.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, XLIII:
- West Indian bay tree (Pimenta racemosa), a tropical American shrub with aromatic leaves