Found 2 items, similar to myrtle.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: myrtle myrtle n 1: widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers [syn: Vinca minor ] 2: any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Myrtus
English → English (gcide) Definition: myrtle Periwinkle \Per"i*win`kle\, n. [OE. pervenke, AS. pervince, fr. L. pervinca.] (Bot.) A trailing herb of the genus Vinca. [1913 Webster] Note: The common perwinkle (Vinca minor) has opposite evergreen leaves and solitary blue or white flowers in their axils. In America it is often miscalled myrtle. See under Myrtle. [1913 Webster]