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say it: MUR-tuhl
myrtle is a noun meaning "widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers". It carries 2 recorded senses.
widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers
any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Myrtus
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for myrtle come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.