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bog myrtle

bog myrtle

noun

  1. another name for sweet gale


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bog myrtle1

First recorded in 1880–85

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Example Sentences

The ling and heather were springy under her feet, and the air was sweet with the scent of the bog-myrtle.

It was covered with grass and low bushes, bog-myrtle, she thought, and a big flock of sheep were feeding there.

And that's the Blairgowrie heather and bog myrtle; never a year but it comes, and it is like a call across the sea.

The air was filled with the poignant sweetness of the loneroid or bog-myrtle, meadow-sweet, and white wild-roses.

There is a moist, rich fragrance of meadowsweet and bog myrtle in the air; and how fresh and wild and verdant it is!

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