- wax myrtle - any shrub or small tree of the genus Myrica with aromatic foliage and small wax-coated berries
--1 is a kind of shrub, bush
--1 is a member of Myrica, genus Myrica
--1 has substances: bayberry wax, bayberry tallow
--1 has particulars:bay myrtle, puckerbush, Myrica cerifera; bayberry, candleberry, swamp candleberry, waxberry, Myrica pensylvanica