myrtle

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/ˈmɜːtl̩/

noun 3name 1

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ADJ.

applied, fast, prickly, used

VERB + MYRTLE

ages, belongs, brought, pulverized

MYRTLE + NOUN

classmates, family, hazard, lindsay, pear, town, trees, warblers

PREP.

from, in

ADV.

often

Definitions

noun

An evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Myrtus, native to southern Europe and north Africa.

In the Middle Ages pulverized myrtle leaves were applied to the body as a sexual stimulation.

Cyrilla species.

A dark green shade that resembles the color of Myrtus leaves.

name

A female given name from English.

Myrtle Hazard Lindsay walked up to the bust, and kissed its marble forehead, saying, "This is the face of my Guardian Angel!"

"My husband used to say that girls with flower names fade fast." It was Myrtle who said this one day, out of the blue, and for some reason it made them all go weak with laughter.

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In the Middle Ages pulverized myrtle leaves were applied to the body as a sexual stimulation.

Wiktionary

Myrtle Hazard Lindsay walked up to the bust, and kissed its marble forehead, saying, "This is the face of my Guardian Angel!"

Wiktionary

"My husband used to say that girls with flower names fade fast." It was Myrtle who said this one day, out of the blue, and for some reason it made them all go weak with laughter.

Wiktionary

Can myrtle be used in cooking?

Tatoeba · #4133995

The apple, the myrtle, the pear, the pomegranate, the fig, the olive, and indeed every kind of tree grew here in perfection.

Tatoeba · #6213340

With cornel shrubs and many a prickly spear / of myrtle crowned, it chanced a mound was near.

Tatoeba · #6924043

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