bayberry

Etymology

bay +‎ berry

Noun

bayberry (plural bayberries)

1. A plant in the genus Myrica, a North American shrub with aromatic leather leaves and waxy berries.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

2. A tropical American shrub with aromatic leaves that are used in the preparation of bay rum.