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Laurel-tree   /lˈɔrəl-tri/   Listen
Laurel-tree

noun
1.
Small tree of southern United States having dark red heartwood.  Synonyms: Persea borbonia, red bay.





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"Laurel-tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... well as Gan, was appalled at this omen; but on assembling his soothsayers, they came to the conclusion that the laurel-tree turned the omen against the emperor, the successor of the Caesars; though one of them renewed the consternation of Gan, by saying that he did not understand the meaning of the tree of Judas, and intimating that perhaps the ambassador could explain it. Gan relieved his consternation ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt
... her carefully, bore her to the foot of a great laurel-tree, and taking his cloak, placed her on it, and bent over her ...
— Saronia - A Romance of Ancient Ephesus • Richard Short


Words linked to "Laurel-tree" :   laurel, Persea, red bay, genus Persea


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