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bog-myrtle

bog-myrtle is the alternative spelling of bog myrtle.

Meaning of bog myrtle

Noun

bog myrtle (countable and uncountable, plural bog myrtles)

  1. An herbal shrub with a strong, sweet resinous smell, Myrica gale, that grows in bogs, moors, fens and other wet, acidic environments.
    • There was nothing of that luxuriance of blossom which had hitherto clothed the wood, for there were no hawthorns; but the bog-myrtle imparted its tender fragrance, and the caressing honeysuckle wound round many an ancient trunk, odours exhaling from every fairy-like tube—fit trumpets for the...1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 56
    Synonyms:
    gale, sweet gale

Forms of bog-myrtle

pluralbog-myrtles

Questions about bog-myrtle

What is bog-myrtle the alternative spelling of?
Bog-myrtle is the alternative spelling of bog myrtle.

Words near bog-myrtle in the dictionary

  1. bog-brained
  2. bog-hole
  3. bog-holes
  4. bog-house
  5. bog-houses
  6. bog-myrtle
  7. bog-myrtles
  8. bog-standard
  9. bog-wood
  10. boga
  11. Bogacz

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