Definitions for Myrica

Myrica my·ri·ca

Spelling: [mi-rahy-kuh]
IPA: /mɪˈraɪ kə/

Myrica is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in Myrica (acimry).

Definitions for Myrica

noun

  1. the bark of the wax myrtle.
  2. the bark of the bayberry.

Origin of Myrica

1700-10; Latin Greek myrī́kē a shrub, the tamarisk

Examples for Myrica

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

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

Wax candles have been made from the seeds of myrica macrocarpa in Colombia, and also from vegetable wax in Java.

The myrica (“Gale” or bog-myrtle) is very abundant, and a useful preventive against the moth if placed in wardrobes or drawers.

myrica Gale, which I had not before met with in Westbothnia, grew sparingly in the marshes.

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

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

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

They saw the valuable wax-berry, (myrica cerifera), yielding its clusters of white wax-coated fruit.

In nests of webworm and beaten from bushes of bayberry, myrica cerifera, along edge of pine woods (Rehn and Hebard, 1916).

Word Value for Myrica
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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