laurel-tree

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laurel-tree - small tree of southern United States having dark red heartwood

Persea borbonia, red bay

laurel - any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family

genus Persea, Persea - avocado

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Lake Thracymene, illumined by the evening sun, lay like flaming gold between the dark-blue mountain-ridges; here, where Hannibal defeated Flaminius, the rivers now held each other in their green embraces; lovely, half-naked children tended a herd of black swine, beneath a group of fragrant laurel-trees, hard by the road-side.

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Both Lydgate and the Donnei-texts, unlike Petrus, make use of a laurel-tree.

Lydgate follows the Donnei-texts and not the Disciplina in reporting that the Bird, once released, flew into the laurel-tree (Lydgate 172; Donnei 1037; Savoirs 111).