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Noun: sand myrtle
  1. Low-growing evergreen shrub of New Jersey to Florida grown for its many white star-shaped flowers and glossy foliage
    "Sand myrtle blooms brightened the coastal garden";
    - Leiophyllum buxifolium

Derived forms: sand myrtles

Type of: bush, shrub

Part of: genus Leiophyllum, Leiophyllum

Encyclopedia: Sand myrtle