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. [1913 Webster]
{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. [1913 Webster]
Bible Dictionary
Myrtle
a plant mentioned in (nehemiah 8:15; isaiah 41:19; 55:13;zechariah 1:8,10,11) The modern Jews still adorn with myrtlethe booths and sheds at the feast of tabernacles. Formerly, aswe learn from Nehemiah, (nehemiah 8:15) myrtles grew on thehills about Jerusalem. "On Olivet." says Dean Stanley, "nothingis now to be seen but the olive and the fig tree:" on some ofthe hills near Jerusalem, however, Hasselquist observed themyrtle. Dr. Hooker says it is not uncommon in Samaria andGalilee. The Myrtus communis is the kind denoted by the Hebrewword. (it is a shrub or low tree sometimes ten feet high, withgreen shining leaves, and snow-white flowers bordered withpurple, "which emit a perfume more exquisite than that of therose." the seeds of the myrtle, dried before they are ripe,form our allspice
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