crepe myrtle

noun

Origin:
1840–50

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crape myrtle or crepe myrtle
 
n
an oriental lythraceous shrub, Lagerstroemia indica, cultivated in warm climates for its pink, red, or white flowers
 
crepe myrtle or crepe myrtle
 
n

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Crepe myrtle is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
The gardens are evergreen, with many varieties of boxwood, camellias and crepe myrtle.
The woodchip mulches had no inhibitory effect on the growth of crepe myrtle plants.
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