Definition of Prunus laurocerasus

1. Noun. Frequently cultivated Eurasian evergreen shrub or small tree having showy clusters of white flowers and glossy foliage and yielding oil similar to bitter almond oil.

Exact synonyms: Cherry Laurel, Laurel Cherry
Group relationships: Genus Prunus, Prunus
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prunus Laurocerasus

Prunus cerasus austera
Prunus cerasus caproniana
Prunus cerasus marasca
Prunus cuneata
Prunus dasycarpa
Prunus demissa
Prunus domestica
Prunus domestica insititia
Prunus dulcis
Prunus dulcis amara
Prunus glandulosa
Prunus ilicifolia
Prunus incisa
Prunus insititia
Prunus japonica
Prunus laurocerasus (current term)
Prunus lyonii
Prunus maritima
Prunus mexicana
Prunus mume
Prunus nigra
Prunus padus
Prunus pensylvanica
Prunus persica
Prunus persica nectarina
Prunus pumila
Prunus pumilla susquehanae
Prunus salicina
Prunus serotina
Prunus serrulata

Literary usage of Prunus laurocerasus

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

1. Legal Medicine and Toxicology by Robert Leonard Emerson (1909)
"treatment, more or less prussic acid: bitter almonds (Amygdalus com- munis); the Amygdalus persica; the cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus); the kernels of ..."

2. The Organic Constituents of Plants and Vegetable Substances and Their by Georg Christoph Wittstein (1878)
"... flowers and bark of the latter; (6) in the amorphous form from the leaves of Prunus Persica and Prunus laurocerasus and from the seeds of Prunus Cerasus ..."

3. A Dictionary of Medical Terminology, Dental Surgery, and the Collateral Sciences by Chapin Aaron Harris (1855)
"Prunus laurocerasus. Poison laurel. LAUREL, SPURGE. Daphne laureola. ... See Prunus Laurocerasus. LAU'UUS. The laurus nobilis. Also, a genus of plants of ..."

4. Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy: Including the Special by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1909)
"... a water distilled from the fresh leaves of Prunus laurocerasus, the common ... perhaps the unofficial Prunus laurocerasus, and the leaves and kernel of ..."

5. Holly, Yew & Box: With Notes on Other Evergreens by William Dallimore, Thomas Moore (1908)
"Of this number the three first mentioned are of the greatest service The Common Laurel = " Prunus laurocerasus." —Although of late years it has become the ..."

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