sassafras laurel

Questions about sassafras laurel

What does sassafras laurel mean?

sassafras 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 sassafras laurel?

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

sassafras 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.