Bayberry: Definition and part of speech

Bayberry

  1. n. The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; — called also candleberry tree.
  2. n. The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis.
  3. n. A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle (Pimenta acris).

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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