1. A deciduous, eastern north american shrub (Myrica pensylvanica) having aromatic foliage and small globose fruits with a waxy covering used for making fragrant candles.
2. the fruit of this tree.

1. common name of the plants in the genus Myrica, a north american shrub with aromatic leather leaves and waxy berries.
2. A tropical american shrub with aromatic leaves that are used in the preparation of bay rum.

1. the fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis.
2. A tree of the west indies related to the myrtle (Pimenta acris).
3. the fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree.

1. the fruit of the bay-tree, or Laurus nobilis.
2. the wax-myrtle, Myrica cerifera, and its fruit.
3. in jamaica, the Pimenta acris, from which an oil is obtained which is used in the manufacture of bay-rum.

1. west indian tree; source of bay rum
2. deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern north america with grey-green wax-coated berries