laurel

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  RHODODENDRON OR GREAT LAUREL
• WordNet 3.6
  • n laurel (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory
  • n Laurel United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965)
  • n laurel any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family
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• Interesting fact: The first place winners at the first modern Olympics were awarded an olive branch and a silver medal. The runners-up received laurel sprigs and copper medals.
• • Laurel A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; -- especially in the plural; as, to win laurels .
  • Laurel An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.
  • Laurel (Bot) An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus Laurus nobilis), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay.
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• • n laurel The bay-tree or bay-laurel, Laurus nobilis. This is the true laurel of the ancients and the poets.
  • n laurel Any species of the genus Laurus.
  • n laurel Any one of many diverse plants whose leaves suggest those of the true laurel. In English gardens the common laurel, or cherry-laurel, more properly laurel-cherry, is Prunus Lauro-Cerasus (see cherry); the Portugal laurel is P. Lusitanica. The copse-, spurge-, or wood-laurel of England is Daphne Laureola. American laurel is the genus Kalmia, including the mountain-laurel of the eastern United States (K. latifolia), the lambkill or sheep-laurel (K. angustifolia), and the pale laurel or swamp-laurel (K. glauca). (See cut under Kalmia.) The great laurel of the same region is the rosebay, Rhododendron maximum; and the ground-laurel is the trailing arbutus, Epigœa repens. (See cut under Epigœa.) The white laurel, another swamp-laurel, of the Atlantic coast and the South, is Magnolia glauca, also called sweetbay. Further south the big laurel, or bull-bay, is Magnolia grandiflora. The Carolina cherry-laurel is Prunus Caroliniana. The California laurel or bay-tree, the mountain-laurel of the West, is Umbellularia Californica. The West Indian laurel is Prunus occidentalis; the seaside laurel of the same locality comprises Phyllanthus latifolius, P. falcatus, and P. linearis. The Japanese laurel, cultivated in several varieties, is Aucuba Japonica of the dogwood family. The Tasmanian laurel is Anopterus glandulosus.
  • n laurel A crown of laurel; hence, honors acquired; claims to or tokens of distinction or glory: often in the plural: as, to win laurels in battle.
  • n laurel An English gold coin worth 20 shillings, or about 5 dollars, first issued in 1619 by James I.: so called because the head of the king was wreathed with laurel, and not crowned, as on earlier English coins. It was also called broad, unite, and jacobus. See cut under broad, n.
  • n laurel A salmon which has remained in fresh water during the summer.
  • laurel Pertaining to or consisting of laurel: as, a laurel wreath.
  • n laurel In Porto Rico, Mexico, and Central America, a name applied to many species of Ocoted, Damburneya, and allied genera of Lauraceæ; especially, in Porto Rico, to Ocotea fœniculacea, O. floribunda, Damburneya Sintenisii (Nectandra Sintenisii of Mez), D. Krugii (Nectandra Krugii of Mez), and D. coriacea (Nectandra coriacea of Grisebach).
  • n laurel The Victorian laurel, Pittosporum undulatum. Also called mock-orange.
  • n laurel A tree of the ginseng family, Polyscias elegans, yielding a light, soft wood. Also called white sycamore.
  • n laurel The American laurel.
  • n laurel The oleander.
  • n laurel The laurel-magnolia, Magnolia Virginiana.
  • laurel To crown with, or as with, laurel as a distinction.
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• • n Laurel law′rel the bay-tree, used by the ancients for making honorary wreaths: a crown of laurel, honours gained (freq. in pl.): any species of the genus Laurus
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• Carl Rowan

  

  “Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.”
• William Blake

  

  “The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.”
• Henry Giles

  

  “Literature, as a field of glory, is an arena where a tomb may be more easily found than laurels; and as a means of support, it is the chance of chances.”
• Oscar Wilde

  

  “Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.”
• Julie Krone

  

  “With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.”
• Douglas Macarthur

  

  “Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.”

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