laurel-tree


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Noun1.laurel-tree - small tree of southern United States having dark red heartwoodlaurel-tree - small tree of southern United States having dark red heartwood
laurel - any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family
genus Persea, Persea - avocado
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References in classic literature ?
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.
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).