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Webster 1913 Edition
Myrica
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My-ri′ca
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Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK] tamarisk.]
(Bot.)
A widely dispersed genus of shrubs and trees, usually with aromatic foliage. It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle, the sweet gale, and the North American sweet fern, so called.
Definition 2024
Myrica
Myrica
See also: myrica
Translingual
Proper noun
Myrica f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Myricaceae – many small trees and shrubs.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Fagales - order; Myricaceae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Myrica californica, Myrica carolinensis, Myrica cerifera, Myrica cordifolia, Myrica faya, Myrica gale, Myrica hartwegii, Myrica heterophylla, Myrica javanica, Myrica luzonica, Myrica nagi, Myrica nana, Myrica pensylvanica, Myrica pubescens, Myrica pumila, Myrica rubra (⇒ Morella rubra), Myrica asplenifolia - species