bayberry
noun
any of several often aromatic trees or shrubs of the genus Myrica, as M. pensylvanica, of northeastern North America, and M. californica, of the western U.S.
bayberries
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pluralof bayberry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For two days they had been boiling the small gray bayberries that Kit and Judith had gathered in the fields, and Rachel had skimmed off the thick greenish tallow.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
She still had his cake to bake, and candles to make from the waxy bayberries that grew near the shore, and last but not least his presents to arrange.
From The Cheerful Cricket and Others by Jeannette Augustus Marks
So they looked and found plenty of green for wreaths, and some bayberries like coral, and some holly, besides, by the ruins of the deserted house that had burned down years before they were born.
From Half-Past Seven Stories by Robert Gordon Anderson
The flicker devours most of the fruits listed for the two woodpeckers named above, also hackberry, black alder, green brier, bayberries.
From Seed Dispersal by W. J. (William James) Beal
Elmira picked bayberries, too, and sold 'em to the shoemaker for tallow; she sold a lot in Dale.
From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
