Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the laurel family, Laurineæ (Lauraceæ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Belonging to, or resembling, a natural order (Lauraceæ) of trees and shrubs having aromatic bark and foliage, and including the laurel, sassafras, cinnamon tree, true camphor tree, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Belonging to, or resembling, a natural order (
Lauraceae ) of trees and shrubs having aromaticbark andfoliage , and including thelaurel ,sassafras ,cinnamon tree, truecamphor tree, etc.
Etymologies
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From Lauraceae, from Latin laurus ("laurel").
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