Spurge Laurel, Daphne laureola. (In early use not clearly distinguished from laurel, n.1)

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

An early-flowering, low-growing woodland shrub, Daphne mezereum (family Thymelaeaceae), native to Europe and Asia and widely cultivated as a garden…

Some forms of this word were by certain writers of the 16th cent. appropriated to the spurge laurel (see laureole, n.).

A shrub: probably the Mezereon (see quot. 1878).

In names of trees and plants, of species or varieties introduced from Holland, or common in that country; or sometimes merely to distinguish them…

an old name for the shrub Daphne Tartonraira.

One or other of the shrubs belonging to the genus Daphne, esp. D. laureola, the dried bark of which is used in medicine.

A shrub of the genus Daphne (family Thymelaeaceae); esp. the mezereon, D. mezereum, with pink or pale purple flowers and bright red berries (more…

Probably: a variety of the garland-flower, Daphne cneorum (family Thymelaeaceae), a pink-flowered shrub native to the mountainous areas of central…

the shrub Daphne mezereum (family Thymeliaceæ).

(see quot.).

With defining word: Alexandrian laurel n. Ruscus racemosus. American dwarf laurel n. or mountain laurel n. = kalmia, n. cherry laurel n. (see sense…

A mezereon, spec. Daphne mezereum; (also) a medicinal preparation of Daphne mezereum (cf. mezereon, n. 2).

Lindley's name for plants of the family Thymelaceæ, including Daphne.

the spurge laurel.