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Word entry · 8 letters

bayberry

Best crossword clue

"Aromatic waxy shrub"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPart of speech nounSorted abberryyStarts with BEnds with Y2 clues
1B2A3Y4B5E6R7R8Y

Definitions

  1. deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries

Word origin

From bay + berry.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • The two North American genera are Myrica (bayberry) and Comptonia (sweet-fern).
  • [T]heir shape was much like a Figg, but very much smaller, some being about the bigness of a Bay-berry, others, and the biggest, of a Hazel-Nut.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Aromatic waxy shrub8 letters
02Wax-bearing shrub8 letters

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