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MYRTLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers

Synonyms:

myrtle; Vinca minor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("myrtle" is a kind of...):

periwinkle (chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Myrtus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("myrtle" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "myrtle"):

common myrtle; Myrtus communis (European shrub with white or rosy flowers followed by black berries)

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