The laurel or bay-tree; also, the leaves of the same woven into a chaplet. Also laure tree.

The Bay-tree or Bay-laurel, Laurus nobilis: see bay, n.1 2. Now rare except as in 2.

= sense 1.

= laurel, n.1

(a) The laurel. (b) in Botany. The name of a genus of flowering shrubs containing the Spurge Laurel and Mezereon.

Short for bay-tree n. at compounds 1 or Bay Laurel, English name of the Laurus nobilis (called also Sweet Bay), a fine tree, with deep-green…

(a) the bay laurel, Laurus nobilis; (b) in North America applied to Magnolia virginiana, also called white bay; also attributive and in combination.

an evergreen tree, Persea borbonia (family Lauraceae), with reddish-brown bark, which is found in swampy areas of the south-eastern United States.

(a) = bay, n.2 4 (see also quots.); (b) Botany the red bay (see red, adj. n.compounds 1e(d)).

= sweet bay n. (a).

attributive. Designating plants and animals found in the region of Oregon. a small evergreen tree, Umbellularia californica (family Laureaceae)…