myrica

How to use myrica in a sentence

• The berries of the myrica angustifolia, latifolia, as well as the cerifera, afford abundance of wax.

  A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew Ure

• It is prepared by distilling rum from the leaves of myrica acris (called Bayberry in America).

  Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I | Arnold Cooley

• myrica, and pendulous lichens occurred in abundance, but grasses predominate, chiefly Airoid and Andropogons.

  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The | William Griffith

• Frisius appears in this legend as the maker of the map, with Mercator and myrica as the engravers.

  Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Vol I | Edward Luther Stevenson

• Bayberry-tallow is greenish in color, and is obtained by boiling the berries of the bayberry, or wax myrtle (myrica cerifera).

  Harper's Young People, March 15, 1881 | Various