NOUN
- small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors
How To Use bay laurel In A Sentence
- Our home is at the southwestern tip of the valley, nestled among the lace-lichen laden oaks, bay laurel, mountain mahogany, ceanothus and toyon which typify this classically central coast California oak woodland.
- Their aroma bears some resemblance to bay laurel, though it is distinctly stronger, with a dominant eucalyptus note from cineole. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
- One is the bay laurel, often called sweet bay or simply the bay tree. Times, Sunday Times
- Among the others are tanoaks, California black oaks, Shreve's oaks, madrones, rhododendrons, manzanita, big leaf maples and bay laurels.
- Bay laurel or sweet bay. Winter Garden Glory
- It sickens nearly two dozen other hosts that range from California buckeye, bay laurel, and bigleaf maple to redwood, some rhododendrons, and even certain blueberry cultivars.
- Among the others are tanoaks, California black oaks, Shreve's oaks, madrones, rhododendrons, manzanita, big leaf maples and bay laurels.
- Bay laurel or sweet bay. Winter Garden Glory
- One is the bay laurel, often called sweet bay or simply the bay tree. Times, Sunday Times
- Indeed, we seem to be reading a description no longer of the virtues of the bay laurel, but of the _virtues_ of all beautiful sights and sounds, of all beautiful thoughts and emotions, in reading the following quaint and charming words of an old herbal: -- Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life