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bog myrtles

bog myrtles is the plural 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

Questions about bog myrtles

What is bog myrtles the plural of?
Bog myrtles is the plural of bog myrtle.

Words near bog myrtles in the dictionary

  1. bog meadow
  2. bog meadows
  3. bog moss
  4. bog mosses
  5. bog myrtle
  6. bog myrtles
  7. bog oak
  8. bog oaks
  9. bog off
  10. bog orange
  11. bog oranges

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