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Word | Myrtle |
Afrikaans Meaning | myrtle |
widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers / any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Myrtus / A species of the genus Myrtus, especially Myrtus communis. The common myrtle has a shrubby, upright stem, eight or ten feet high. Its branches form a close, full head, thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves. It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers, followed by black several-seeded berries. The ancients considered it sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and the beautifully mottled wood is used in turning. / an evergreen shrub that has glossy aromatic foliage and white flowers followed by purple-black oval berries., | |
Usage | ⇒ When I moved into my bungalow about 2 years ago, I inherited a shrub which I was given to understand is a myrtle : it is a bushy evergreen with small, dark green, glossy, pointed leaves. |
Synonyms | shrub, alder, bay myrtle, bayberry, blackberry, blackthorn, blueberry, chokeberry, color, cotton, courtship, cranberry, crape, currant, elder, evergreen shrub, flower, forsythia, fuchsia, furze, |
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