wood laurel

Questions about wood laurel

What is another word for wood laurel?

It depends which wood laurel you mean. In the sense “bushy Eurasian shrub with glossy leathery oblong leaves and yellow-green flowers”, the synonyms are spurge laurel, Daphne laureola. Across all 2 senses there are 6 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of wood laurel?

WordNet records no antonym for wood laurel. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Why are the synonyms for wood laurel split into groups?

Because wood laurel carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for wood laurel come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of wood laurel

• Full entry for wood laurelAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for wood laurelWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.