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Definition of Crape myrtle

Crape myrtle
Crape Crape (kr[=a]p), n. [F. cr[^e]pe, fr. L. crispus curled, crisped. See Crisp.] A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen. A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. --Pope. Crape myrtle (Bot.), a very ornamental shrub (Lagerstr["o]mia Indica) from the East Indies, often planted in the Southern United States. Its foliage is like that of the myrtle, and the flower has wavy crisped petals. Oriental crape. See Canton crape.

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- Lagerstroemia (/ˌleɪɡərˈstriːmiə/), commonly known as ****e myrtle (also spelled crepe myrtle or crêpe myrtle), is a genus of around 50 species of deciduous...
- Lagerstroemia indica, commonly known as a ****e myrtle (also crepe myrtle, crêpe myrtle, or crepeflower), is a species of flowering plant in the genus...
- Its timber is next only to teak in its strength. It is called Queen ****e myrtle as its flowers look like delicate crêpe paper. The Latin specific epithet...
- hybrid ****e myrtle, is an artificial hybrid species of flowering plant in the family Lythraceae. Its parents are Lagerstroemia indica (the crepe‑myrtle) and...
- more than 35 kinds of ****e myrtles. In the southern United States, they became the major landscape trees there. Also, ****e myrtles can be used as host...
- known as Lagerstroemia ****e myrtle, ****e myrtle, crepe myrtle, ****emyrtle, crepemyrtle, giant ****e-myrtle, Queen's ****e-myrtle or banabá plant Melia...
- ****igns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race. ****e Myrtle capital, chieftain.com. Accessed December 21, 2022. "Welcome to Waxahachie...
- as well as the sculpture Thank Heaven for Little Girls by Gary Price. ****e myrtle trees enclose a stone walkway to create the garden. This natural tunnel...
- official city flower is Royal Azalea (철쭉) while the city tree is the ****e-myrtle (배롱나무) and the city bird is the swallow (제비). Namwon is a small city...
- egolfii (usually given as Lagerstroemia indica × fauriei), the hybrid ****e myrtle, which has many cultivars and is widely planted as an ornamental in the...