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Plural of myrtle

regular plural

The plural of myrtle is myrtles.

Forms of myrtle

Singularmyrtle /ˈmɜːtl̩/
Pluralmyrtles
Countablecountable

Myrtles in a sentence

  • Olive cared for a stand of crape myrtles in her backyard because she delighted in butterflies and blossoms.2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 263. From the entry crape myrtle

Meaning of myrtle

  1. noun An evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Myrtus, native to southern Europe and north Africa.
  2. noun A small tree or tall shrub, Cyrilla racemiflora, native to temperate and tropical regions of the Americas.
  3. noun A tall evergreen Australian tree, Nothofagus cunninghamii, native to Victoria and Tasmania.

Full definition of myrtle

Questions about the plural of myrtle

What is the plural of myrtle?
The plural of myrtle is myrtles.
Is myrtle countable?
Myrtle is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: myrtle (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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