myoporum

myoporum: \\mīˈäpərəm\ noun
Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from myo- (from Greek myein to close — used of the lips and eyes) + -porum (from Greek poros pore) — more at mystery, pore

: a genus (the type of the family Myoporaceae) of mostly Australasian shrubs or trees that have small axillary white flowers with a 5-parted bell-shaped calyx — see bastard sandalwood

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/muy op"euhr euhm/, n.

any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Myoporum, chiefly of Australia and New Zealand, cultivated in warm regions as hedges or ornamentals.

[ < NL (1786) < Gk mý(ein) to shut (the eyes) + NL -porum, deriv. of LL porus PORE², alluding to the spots on the leaves, suggesting closed pores]

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