laurel cherry

Questions about laurel cherry

What does laurel cherry mean?

laurel cherry means "frequently cultivated Eurasian evergreen shrub or small tree having showy clusters of white flowers and glossy foliage and yielding oil similar to bitter almond oil". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for laurel cherry?

Close synonyms include cherry laurel, Prunus laurocerasus, cherry laurel, mock orange, wild orange. 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 laurel cherry a common word?

laurel cherry 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.