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myr·tle    Audio Help   [mur-tl] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.any plant of the genus Myrtus, esp. M. communis, a shrub of southern Europe having evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and aromatic berries: anciently held sacred to Venus and used as an emblem of love. Compare myrtle family.
2.any of certain unrelated plants, as the periwinkle, Vinca minor, and California laurel, Umbellularia californica.
3.Also called myr·tle·wood    Audio Help   [mur-tl-wood] Pronunciation Key. the hard, golden-brown wood of the California laurel.
4.Also called myrtle green. dark green with bluish tinge.
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME mirtile < ML myrtillus, equiv. to L myrt(us) (< Gk mýrtos) + NL -illus dim. suffix]
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–noun
a female given name.
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myr·tle    Audio Help   (mûr'tl)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Any of several evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Myrtus, especially M. communis, an aromatic shrub native to the Mediterranean region and western Asia, having pink or white flowers and blue-black berries and widely cultivated as a hedge plant.
  2. See periwinkle2.


[Middle English mirtille, from Old French, from Medieval Latin myrtillus, diminutive of Latin myrtus, from Greek murtos.]

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per·i·win·kle 2    Audio Help   (pěr'ĭ-wĭng'kəl)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Any of several shrubby, trailing, evergreen plants of the genus Vinca, especially V. minor, having glossy, dark green, opposite leaves and flowers with a blue, funnel-shaped corolla. Also called myrtle.
  2. Any of several erect herbs of the genus Catharanthus, especially C. roseus, having flowers with a rose-pink or white salverform corolla and a closed throat.
  3. A pale purplish blue.


[Middle English pervinkle, diminutive of pervinke, from Old English pervince, from Latin (vinca) pervinca, from pervincīre, to wind about.]

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myrtle 
c.1400, from O.Fr. mirtile, from M.L. myrtillus, dim. of myrtus "myrtle tree," from Gk. myrtos, from same Sem. source as Gk. myrrha (see myrrh).

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myrtle

noun
1. widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers 
2. any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Myrtus 

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Myrtle Beach, SC (city, FIPS 49075) Location: 33.69879 N, 78.89216 W
Population (1990): 24848 (13327 housing units)
Area: 40.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 29572, 29577

Myrtle Creek, OR (city, FIPS 50950) Location: 43.02578 N, 123.28256 W
Population (1990): 3063 (1198 housing units)
Area: 3.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 97457

Myrtle Point, OR (city, FIPS 51050) Location: 43.06222 N, 124.13188 W
Population (1990): 2712 (1125 housing units)
Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 97458

Myrtle Grove, FL (CDP, FIPS 47550) Location: 30.41594 N, 87.30378 W
Population (1990): 17402 (6471 housing units)
Area: 17.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Myrtle Grove, NC (CDP, FIPS 45840) Location: 34.12438 N, 77.88375 W
Population (1990): 4275 (1828 housing units)
Area: 17.8 sq km (land), 1.0 sq km (water)

North Myrtle Beach, SC (city, FIPS 51280) Location: 33.82762 N, 78.67114 W
Population (1990): 8636 (13336 housing units)
Area: 24.2 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water)

Myrtle, MO Zip code(s): 65778

Myrtle, MS (town, FIPS 50280) Location: 34.55928 N, 89.11581 W
Population (1990): 358 (159 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 38650

Myrtle, WV Zip code(s): 25670

Myrtle, MN (city, FIPS 44890) Location: 43.56318 N, 93.16288 W
Population (1990): 72 (36 housing units)
Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

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Myrtle

Myr"tle\ (m[~e]r"t'l), n. [F. myrtil bilberry, prop., a little myrtle, from myrte myrtle, L. myrtus, murtus, Gr. my`rtos; cf. Per. m[=u]rd.] (Bot.) A species of the genus Myrtus, especially Myrtus communis. The common myrtle has a shrubby, upright stem, eight or ten feet high. Its branches form a close, full head, thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves. It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers, followed by black several-seeded berries. The ancients considered it sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and the beautifully mottled wood is used in turning.

Note: The name is also popularly but wrongly applied in America to two creeping plants, the blue-flowered periwinkle and the yellow-flowered moneywort. In the West Indies several myrtaceous shrubs are called myrtle.

Bog myrtle, the sweet gale.

Crape myrtle. See under Crape.

Myrtle warbler (Zo["o]l.), a North American wood warbler (Dendroica coronata); -- called also myrtle bird, yellow-rumped warbler, and yellow-crowned warbler.

Myrtle wax. (Bot.) See Bayberry tallow, under Bayberry.

Sand myrtle, a low, branching evergreen shrub (Leiophyllum buxifolium), growing in New Jersey and southward.

Wax myrtle (Myrica cerifera). See Bayberry.
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