1. evergreen aromatic shrubby tree of southeastern United States having small hard berries thickly coated with white wax used for candles; [syn: bay myrtle, puckerbush, Myrica cerifera]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bay myrtle
n 1: evergreen aromatic shrubby tree of southeastern United
States having small hard berries thickly coated with white
wax used for candles [syn: bay myrtle, puckerbush,
Myrica cerifera]