Myrtle
['mɜːt(ə)l]
Definition
(noun.) widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers.
(noun.) any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Myrtus.
Checker: Newman--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A species of the genus Myrtus, especially Myrtus communis. The common myrtle has a shrubby, upright stem, eight or ten feet high. Its branches form a close, full head, thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves. It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers, followed by black several-seeded berries. The ancients considered it sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and the beautifully mottled wood is used in turning.
Typist: Ronald
Definition
n. an evergreen shrub with beautiful and fragrant leaves.—n. Myr′tle-wax wax from the candle-berry.
Editor: Susanna
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see myrtle in foliage and bloom in your dream, denotes that your desires will be gratified, and pleasures will possess you. For a young woman to dream of wearing a sprig of myrtle, foretells to her an early marriage with a well-to do and intelligent man. To see it withered, denotes that she will miss happiness through careless conduct.
Checker: Melanie
Examples
- Maurice, you ought to give me your crown, so that myrtle and olive inspire me with the breath of the god. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Meg's had roses and heliotrope, myrtle, and a little orange tree in it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Take this myrtle, said Helena, tossing him a twig across the table, and sing to it in the Greek fashion. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Noting, I gif you my honour, boate some cabage and some myrtle, and great mosh tornep tops, and soam leettil pot of de sweet pea. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Roses for love, myrtle for joy, violets for modesty. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- A drive of half a mile brought us to The Myrtles--a large, dark house standing back from the road in its own grounds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She is living at present at The Myrtles, Beckenham. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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