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 aromatic bark and foliage, and including the laurel, sassafras, cinnamon tree, true camphor tree, etc.

Etymologies

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From Lauraceae, from Latin laurus ("laurel").

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