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Related topics: Plantsmyr·tle /ˈmɜːtl $ ˈmɜːr-/ noun [countable] HBPa small tree with shiny green leaves and white flowers that smell nice 香桃木，爱神木Examples from the Corpusmyrtle• Other images of her were adored in a myrtle and a cedar.• A myrtle warbler in a flowering maple tree repeatedly probed into the massed flowers.• In that sorrowful but lovely spot, shaded with groves of myrtle, Aeneas caught sight of Dido.• I saw and heard several myrtle warblers, along with the first pine, black-and-white, and Nashville warblers.• The wolf's yellow eyes shone, and he ran into the myrtle bushes, pulled Bertha out, and ate her.• The myrtle was her tree; the dove her bird-sometimes, too, the sparrow and the swan.• Dwarf wax myrtle is an evergreen shrub in the 2-to-4-foot range.Origin myrtle (1300-1400) Old French mirtille, from Latin myrtus, from Greek myrtosmyr·tle nounChineseSyllable and green Corpus with tree shiny a leaves white small |