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Answer for the clue "Shrub with wax-covered fruit ", 8 letters:
bayberry

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Word definitions for bayberry in dictionaries

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redirect Myrica

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n. A plant in the genus ''Myrica'', a North American shrub with aromatic leather leaves and waxy berries.

Usage examples of bayberry.

Miss Bayberry cast her sister a severe expression, then cleared her throat and continued.

Miss Bayberry sitting primly at the head of a ridiculously long table that rivaled, in length, any in the dining hall at Selium.

Miss Bayberry poured Rhovan red wine in each goblet and Karigan could only guess at the vintage.

The moonstone remained in her trouser pocket, and the bayberry sprig and bunchberry flower were tucked in an inner pocket of the greatcoat.

She drew the hood up over her head with her tied hands, and searched the pockets for the bunchberry flower and sprig of bayberry in vain.

She slipped it into her pocket and snapped off a bayberry branch just in case.

The sprig of bayberry might make her feel better, but it was no defense against Shawdell.

Like the bayberry sprig, the pieces retained their true colors: blue, green, red.

There were huckleberry-pastures on the lower flanks of The Mountain, with plenty of the sweet-scented bayberry mingled with the other bushes.

Tip reached the bayberry bush, paused to yap once at her master, and then wriggled through the bush and after the deer.

Even unlit, the bayberry candles on the mantel gave off a pleasant scent.

The room was lit with beeswax and bayberry candles and a collection of pewter lamps.

Most of my readers know very well what a petit verre is, but there may be here and there a virtuous abstainer from alcoholic fluids, living among the bayberries and the sweet ferns, who is not aware that the words, as commonly used, signify a small glass--a very small glass--of spirit, commonly brandy, taken as a chasse-cafe, or coffee-chaser.

July in the year of our lord 1817, Killian, Sir Hiltsglen, purchased one stallion of unknown lineage from a Lord Bayberry.

A quick glance showed that the gardenia had easily overpowered vanilla, cinnamon, bayberry, lilac, belladonna, monkshood, pholiotina, and yohimbe.