california laurel

Questions about california laurel

What does california laurel mean?

california laurel 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 laurel?

Close synonyms include California bay tree, 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 laurel a common word?

california 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.