bay leaf

1. 1.

   dried leaf of the bay laurel

   Broaderherb

   Part oftrue laurel

Questions about bay leaf

What does bay leaf mean?

bay leaf means "dried leaf of the bay laurel".

Is bay leaf a common word?

bay leaf is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.