'myrtle bird' definitions:
Definition of 'myrtle bird'
From: WordNet
noun
Similar to Audubon's warbler [syn: myrtle warbler, myrtle bird, Dendroica coronata]
Definition of 'myrtle bird'
From: GCIDE
- Myrtle \Myr"tle\ (m[~e]r"t'l), n. [F. myrtil bilberry, prop., a little myrtle, from myrte myrtle, L. myrtus, murtus, Gr. my`rtos; cf. Per. m[=u]rd.] (Bot.) A species of the genus Myrtus, especially {Myrtus communis}. The common myrtle has a shrubby, upright stem, eight or ten feet high. Its branches form a close, full head, thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves. It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers, followed by black several-seeded berries. The ancients considered it sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and the beautifully mottled wood is used in turning. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The name is also popularly but wrongly applied in America to two creeping plants, the blue-flowered periwinkle and the yellow-flowered moneywort. In the West Indies several myrtaceous shrubs are called myrtle. [1913 Webster]
- Bog myrtle, the sweet gale.
- Crape myrtle. See under Crape.
- Myrtle warbler (Zool.), a North American wood warbler (Dendroica coronata); -- called also myrtle bird, yellow-rumped warbler, and yellow-crowned warbler.
- Myrtle wax. (Bot.) See Bayberry tallow, under Bayberry.
- Sand myrtle, a low, branching evergreen shrub ({Leiophyllum buxifolium}), growing in New Jersey and southward.
- Wax myrtle (Myrica cerifera). See Bayberry. [1913 Webster]