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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of apetalous trees, type of natural order Laurineæ, falling within the tribe Litseaceæ. It is characterized by polygamous flowers in clusters of four together in an involucre, a perianth of 4 segments, and usually 12 to 20 stamens. Only 2 species are known, one, L. nobilis, the true laurel, inhabiting the Mediterranean region, the other, L. Canariensis, confined to the Canary Islands. They are small trees having alternate, entire, evergreen leaves, with the flower-clusters borne in their axils. The fruit is an ovoid berry. (See
laurel .) An immense number of fossil leaves agreeing in all essential respects with those of Laurus have been found, ranging from the Lower Cretaceous of the British Northwest Territory and the Middle Cretaceous of Kansas, Greenland, and Bohemia to the Pliocene and Quaternary of Europe, showing clearly that the plants of this genus and closely related types were much more abundant formerly than now. L. Canariensis is also thus proved to have existed on the continent of Europe in Pliocene time.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A genus of trees including, according to modern authors, only the true laurel (Laurus nobilis), and the larger Laurus Canariensis of Madeira and the Canary Islands. Formerly the sassafras, the camphor tree, the cinnamon tree, and several other aromatic trees and shrubs, were also referred to the genus Laurus.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small evergreen trees or shrubs with aromatic leaves
Examples
“Bay Leaf is harvested from the Laurel tree laurus nobilis and is noted for its distinctive fragrance when cooked.”
“They call it a slow laurus because you can see how slow it moves.”
“But I will choose a site, whose latitude shall be 45 degrees (I respect not minutes) in the midst of the temperate zone, or perhaps under the equator, that [604] paradise of the world, ubi semper virens laurus, &c. where is a perpetual spring: the longitude for some reasons I will conceal.”
“Thracio et laurus insana quae allata in convivium convivas omnes insania affecit.”
“In this cage a slow laurus (ph), a primate nearly driven to extinction in Thailand.”
“The mountain is covered with pines, and the laurus cerasus, the fruit of which being now ripe, made a most romantic appearance through the snow that lay upon the branches.”
“[4] 'Hedera quo que vel laurus et hujusmodi, quæ semper servant virorem, in sarcophago corpori substernantur, ad significandum, quod qui moriuntur in Christo, vivere non desinant; nam licet mundo moriantur secundum corpus, tamen secundum animam vivunt et reviviscunt in”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
“The _laurus cinnamomum_ and _cassia odoriferata_ are produced in abundance about”
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
“The _laurus_ of the ancients was probably the baytree, and not what we now call laurel.”
“Scipiadae, quid Fabricius manesque Camilli, quid Cremerae legio et Cannis consumpta iuventus, tot bellorum animae, quotiens hinc talis ad illos umbra venit? cuperent lustrari, si qua darentur sulpura cum taedis et si foret umida laurus. illic heu miseri traducimur. arma quidem ultra litora Iuvernae promovimus et modo captas”
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