myrīcē, ēs, or myrīca, ae, f., = μυρίκη,
the tamarisk, a kind of shrub , Plin. 13, 21, 37, § 116; 24, 9, 41, § 67.—Prov., to signify something impossible: pinguia corticibus sudent electra myricae, Verg. E. 8, 54.