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CANDLEBERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries
Synonyms:
bayberry; candleberry; Myrica pensylvanica; swamp candleberry; waxberry
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("candleberry" is a kind of...):
wax myrtle (any shrub or small tree of the genus Myrica with aromatic foliage and small wax-coated berries)