mountain laurel

Questions about mountain laurel

What does mountain laurel mean?

mountain laurel means "a North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for mountain laurel?

Close synonyms include wood laurel, American laurel, calico bush, Kalmia latifolia, California 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 mountain laurel a common word?

mountain 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.