loblolly bayn. an ornamental tree, Gordonia Lasianthus, of the southern United States.
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1760 J. LeeIntrod. Bot. App. 306Bay, Loblolly, Gordonia.
1760 J. LeeIntrod. Bot. App. 317Loblolly Bay, Hypericum.
1771 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 519 That elegant evergreen-tree, called in South Carolina and the Floridas, the Loblolly~bay, or Alcea Floridana.