wood laurel

1. 1.

   bushy Eurasian shrub with glossy leathery oblong leaves and yellow-green flowers

   Synonymsspurge laurelDaphne laureola

   Broaderdaphne
2. 2.

   a North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers

   Synonymsmountain laurelAmerican laurelcalico bushKalmia latifolia

   Broaderkalmia

Questions about wood laurel

What does wood laurel mean?

wood laurel means "bushy Eurasian shrub with glossy leathery oblong leaves and yellow-green flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wood laurel?

Close synonyms include spurge laurel, Daphne laureola, mountain laurel, American laurel, calico bush. 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 wood laurel a common word?

wood laurel 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.