bay laurel

Questions about bay laurel

What does bay laurel mean?

bay laurel means "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".

What is another word for bay laurel?

Close synonyms include true laurel, bay, bay tree, Laurus nobilis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bay laurel a common word?

bay laurel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.