BAYBERRY Definition & Meaning

bayberry

[ bey-ber-ee, -buh-ree ]

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noun

plural bayberries.

any of several often aromatic trees or shrubs of the genus Myrica, as M. pensylvanica, of northeastern North America, and M. californica, of the western U.S. Compare wax myrtle.
the berry of such a plant.
bay ⁴( def 2 ).

bayberry

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noun

any of several North American aromatic shrubs or small trees of the genus Myrica , that bear grey waxy berries: family Myricaceae See also wax myrtle
Also calledbay rum tree a tropical American myrtaceous tree, Pimenta racemosa , that yields an oil used in making bay rum
the fruit of any of these plants

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Origin of bayberry¹

First recorded in 1570–80; bay ⁴ + berry

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On a warm day in May, the island smelled the way it always had: a bracing scent of salt brine and peppery bayberry from the protected moors that cover most of its surface.

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A fuzzy, freckled gull chick emerged from a bayberry bush, stared curiously at me as if it had spotted a Martian, and then waddled back to its hiding place.

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Now, it is a larger and maturing display that includes towering shrubs of buttonbush and bayberry amid lower drifts of lobelia, aster, swamp mallow, goldenrod and winterberry.

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In the heart of the garden, there are towering shrubs of buttonbush and bayberry amid lower drifts of lobelia, aster, swamp mallow, goldenrod and winterberry.

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They set up their summer camps within dunes blanketed with beach grass and sand pea, amid thickets of bayberry, oak and red cedar.

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