california bay tree

Questions about california bay tree

What does california bay tree mean?

california bay tree means "Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood".

What is another word for california bay tree?

Close synonyms include California laurel, Oregon myrtle, pepperwood, spice tree, sassafras laurel. 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 california bay tree a common word?

california bay tree 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.