myrtle

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myr·tle /ˈmɜːtl $ ˈmɜːr-/ noun [countable]  HBPa small tree with shiny green leaves and white flowers that smell nice 香桃木，爱神木

Examples from the Corpus

myrtle• Other images of her were adored in a myrtle and a cedar.• A myrtle warbler in a flowering maple tree repeatedly probed into the massed flowers.• In that sorrowful but lovely spot, shaded with groves of myrtle, Aeneas caught sight of Dido.• I saw and heard several myrtle warblers, along with the first pine, black-and-white, and Nashville warblers.• The wolf's yellow eyes shone, and he ran into the myrtle bushes, pulled Bertha out, and ate her.• The myrtle was her tree; the dove her bird-sometimes, too, the sparrow and the swan.• Dwarf wax myrtle is an evergreen shrub in the 2-to-4-foot range.Origin myrtle (1300-1400) Old French mirtille, from Latin myrtus, from Greek myrtos

myr·tle nounChineseSyllable  

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myrtle
myr‧tle /ˈmɜːtl $ ˈmɜːr-/ noun [countable]a small tree with shiny green leaves and white flowers that smell nice

myr·tleBrE /ˈmɜːtl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈmɜːrtl/ 🔊 noun [uncountable, countable] a bush with shiny leaves, pink or white flowers and bluish-black berries 香桃木；爱神木；番樱桃