Definition of Laurel family

1. Noun. A family of Lauraceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Laurel Family

laurae
lauras
laurate
laurates
laureate
laureated
laureates
laureateship
laureateships
laureating
laureation
laureations
laurel
laurel-tree
laurel cherry
laurel family (current term)
laurel fever
laurel green
laurel oak
laurel sumac
laurel water
laurel willow
laurel wreath
laureled
laureling
laurelite
laurelled
laurelling
laurels
laurelwood

Literary usage of Laurel family

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"laurel family. Aromatic trees and shrubs, with alternate (very rarely opposite) mostly thick evergreen or deciduous, punctate exstipulate leaves. ..."

2. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"laurel family. Aromatic evergreen trees and shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, without stipules. Flowers perfect and regular. Petals none. ..."

3. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... especially when they are crushed, emit a most delightful fragrance, suggestive of the spicy scent of wild woodsy strawberries. THE laurel family. ..."

4. Tropical Agriculture: A Treatise on the Culture, Preparation, Commerce and by Peter Lund Simmonds (1889)
"Many of the trees of the laurel family, to which the Cinnamon and Cassia belong, ... laurel family ..."

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