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Definition of Swamp bay
1. Noun. Shrub or small tree having rather small fragrant white flowers; abundant in southeastern United States.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swamp Bay
Literary usage of Swamp bay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The swamp bay is remarkable for its range, which extends from Gloucester,
Massachusetts, to Florida, and westward to lower Arkansas and the Trinity River in ..."
2. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The swamp bay is remarkable for its range, which extends from Gloucester, ...
swamp bay flowers are globular and small for a magnolia— only two or three ..."
3. Drugs and Medicines of North America: A Quarterly Devoted to the Historical by John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd (1887)
"The names by which it is usually known are Sweet Bay and Swamp Laurel, but it is
called, also, White Bay, White Laurel, Red Laurel, Holly Bay, swamp bay, ..."
4. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1894)
"swamp bay.) A slender tree, with gray branches and light brown small-scaled bark,
reaching a height of 70 and a diameter of 3J feet. It occurs in deep, ..."
5. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"... Fla., and along the gulf to the Brazos River, Tex.; northward it extends
through La. to southern Ark. swamp bay A similar but smaller tree about 35 ..."
6. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The swamp bay is remarkable for its range, which extends from Gloucester, ...
swamp bay flowers are globular and small for a magnolia— only two or. three ..."
7. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The swamp bay is remarkable for its range, which extends from Gloucester, ...
swamp bay flowers are globular and small for a magnolia— only two or three ..."
8. Drugs and Medicines of North America: A Quarterly Devoted to the Historical by John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd (1887)
"The names by which it is usually known are Sweet Bay and Swamp Laurel, but it is
called, also, White Bay, White Laurel, Red Laurel, Holly Bay, swamp bay, ..."
9. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1894)
"swamp bay.) A slender tree, with gray branches and light brown small-scaled bark,
reaching a height of 70 and a diameter of 3J feet. It occurs in deep, ..."
10. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"... Fla., and along the gulf to the Brazos River, Tex.; northward it extends
through La. to southern Ark. swamp bay A similar but smaller tree about 35 ..."
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