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<botany> A widely dispersed genus of shrubs and trees, usually with aromatic foliage. It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle, the sweet gale, and the North American sweet fern, so called.
Origin: L, fr. Gr. Tamarisk.
(01 Mar 1998)
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