wax shrub, noun phrase

Obsolete. wax-berry sense b.
1798 S.H. Wilcocke tr. of J.S. Stavorinus’s Voy. to E. Indies II. 84The wax-shrubs (myrica querifolia, and cordifolia) afford a substance resembling bees’-wax.
1809 J. Mackrill Diary. 56Myrica cordifolia Wax shrub, Hottentots eat it.
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