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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Bot.)

(a)

The fruit of the bay tree or

Laurus nobilis

(b)

A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle (

Pimenta acris

(c)

The fruit of

Myrica cerifera

(wax myrtle); the shrub itself; – called also

candleberry tree

Bayberry tallow

a fragrant green wax obtained from the bayberry or wax myrtle; – called also

myrtle wax

bayberry ‎(plural bayberries)

A plant in the genus Myrica, a North American shrub with aromatic leather leaves and waxy berries.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
  I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
A tropical American shrub with aromatic leaves that are used in the preparation of bay rum.