bog myrtle
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Etymology
From bog + myrtle; plants with small evergreen leaves are often named after the myrtle.
Noun
bog myrtle (plural bog myrtles)
- An herbal shrub with a strong, sweet resinous smell, Myrica gale, that grows in bogs, moors, fens and other wet, acidic environments.
- 1834, L E L, chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. In Three Volumes.">…], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 56:
- There was nothing of that luxuriance of blossom which had hitherto clothed the wood, for there were no hawthorns; but the bog-myrtle imparted its tender fragrance, and the caressing honeysuckle wound round many an ancient trunk, odours exhaling from every fairy-like tube—fit trumpets for the heralds of Titania.
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Translations
Myrica gale — see gale