1. small waxy berries produced by certain shrubs, especially bayberry, used for making candles and soap
2. the fruit of the Chinese bayberry tree, eaten fresh or used in traditional medicine
Usage: also called yangmei

Examples

• Colonial settlers collected waxberries to make candles during the winter months.
• The coastal shrubs were heavy with waxberries after the mild autumn.
• She learned to identify waxberries by their distinctive waxy coating.
• Fresh waxberries from the Chinese market had a sweet-tart flavor.
• The candle maker boiled waxberries to extract the natural wax.
• Waxberries ripen in late summer along the sandy coastline.