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Meanings of myrtle in English

Portuguese
mirto
Catalan
murta

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

        mirto
        Usage of myrtle in English
        1
        The palm, the olive, and the myrtle groves, rustle in the breeze.
        Mohammed Ali and His House
        2
        Antonia and Dare were in the myrtle walk or under the fig-tree.
        Remember the Alamo
        3
        It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.
        Mansfield Park
        4
        The wax on the candle-berry myrtle said to be made by insects
        The Botanic Garden. Part II. / Containing the Loves of the Plant...
        5
        On the window-sill stood Madam Stolpe's myrtle; it was stripped quite bare.
        Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03
        6
        Stuffed with olives and myrtle berries, the Corsican blackbirds are exquisite eating.
        The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
        7
        Rogero thanked the myrtle, and prepared to set out on his way.
        Legends of Charlemagne
        8
        Here still grows the myrtle with pierced leaves, as I am told.
        Primitive Love and Love-Stories
        9
        For food the gardens yield us white sesame, myrtle-berries, poppies and mint.
        The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
        10
        The private gardens were lush and thick with myrtle, cypress, and boxwood.
        Cleopatra's Moon
        11
        Do you go to the house where they write for the myrtle?
        Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 / The Work...
        12
        May I cut some sprays from your blooming myrtle for a wreath?
        Homo Sum — Volume 05
        13
        Mother's bridal wreath? murmured Jordan, as he looked at the faded myrtle.
        The Goose Man
        14
        There are no fungicides proven effective against myrtle rust available to home gardeners.
        Radio NZ
        15
        He pointed with a cruel smile to the lovers in the myrtle arbor.
        Frederick the Great and His Court
        16
        No ostentatious trappings ornamented the coffin; only a myrtle wreath lay on it.
        The Nameless Castle
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