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单词 great laurel
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great laurel
great laurel n. (a) a shrub used medicinally, perhaps Ruscus hypoglossum (obsolete); (b) the common or cherry laurel, Prunus laurocerasus (obsolete); (c) a large rhododendron of eastern North America, Rhododendron maximum (cf. rosebay n. 3).
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1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. f. 108v Pagana lingua, great Laurell, hoate and drie, aperitiue.
1606 W. Ram Little Dodeon sig. F5 Let him enter into a bath, in which the leaues and rootes of long and round Docks and Scabious wild, and domesticall great Lawrell, and little Lawrell..shall be boyled.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum Index 1740/2 Great Lawrell or Lauro Cerasus.
1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum at Laurel Great Laurel, or Cherry Bay, is Lauro Cerasus.
1834 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. II. 17 What a beautiful object, in the delightful season of spring, is our Great Laurel.
1917 C. H. Snow Wood & Org. Struct. Materials vii. 195 The wood of the Great Laurel or Rose Bay (Rhododendron maximum) is hard, rather brittle, close-grained, and heavy, and is sometimes used as a substitute for Boxwood.
2001 R. D. Porcher & D. A. Rayner Guide Wildflowers S. Carolina 72 The invasion of shrubs, mostly great laurel (Rhododendron maximum), has reduced the sphagnum-dominated areas by half.
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