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UK
/lˈæbɜːnəm/
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NOUN
- flowering shrubs or trees having bright yellow flowers; all parts of the plant are poisonous
How To Use Laburnum In A Sentence
- The laburnum is the train, and there are the signal-boxes, and the road up to here — and those fat red daisies are us three waving to the old gentleman — that’s him, the pansy in the laburnum train.” The Railway Children
- Their success is down to the active ingredient cytisine, which is derived from laburnum seeds. The Guardian World News
- The common laburnum has a variety which often produces quaternate and quinate leaves, and in strawberries I have also seen instances of this abnormality. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
- Among other plants which may cause serious mischief, but are seldom suspected, are such harmless-looking flowers as the meadowsweet, herb-paris, the common fool's-parsley, found growing in quantities in the gardens of unlet houses and neglected ground which has been in cultivation, mezereon, columbine, and laburnum. The Naturalist on the Thames
- Tabex is made from cytisine, a nicotine substitute naturally found in laburnum seeds. The Sun
- Other conspicuous species include the whites, pinks and mauves of the lilacs and laburnums on Mitchell Drive and the common horse chestnut whose upright white flower stalks stand out boldly - there are several fine trees near to the Great Oak Hall.
- The windows were open, and the orioles were singing in the great elm-tree, and the laburnum was a bower of gold. Margaret Montfort
- The laburnum, with its golden rain, is potentially a kind of upas tree. The Naturalist on the Thames
- Cat pointed toward the shrubbery, the secluded stand of laburnum, Leda and her god hidden away in eternal orgasm. Earl of Durkness
- A wood-pigeon is cooing lazily in the distance, and the gardens are ablaze with laburnums and rhododendrons.