candleberry : Idioms & Phrases

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candleberry tree

Can"dle*ber`ry tree
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.
Webster 1913

swamp candleberry

  • noun deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries
    Myrica pensylvanica; waxberry; bayberry; candleberry.
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