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Definition of Cherry laurel
1. Noun. 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.
Group relationships: Genus Prunus, Prunus
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
2. Noun. Small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States.
Group relationships: Genus Prunus, Prunus
Generic synonyms: Angiospermous Tree, Flowering Tree
Definition of Cherry laurel
1. Noun. An evergreen shrub, native to regions bordering the Black Sea in southwestern Asia. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cherry Laurel
Literary usage of Cherry laurel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology by John James Reese (1903)
"... plum, and cherry, pips of apples, and the flowers and leaves of the peach and
cherry-laurel. From the latter a very poisonous liquid is prepared. ..."
2. A Treatise on Poisons: In Relation to Medical Jurisprudence, Physiology, and by Robert Christison (1836)
"... fresh young shoots of the peach collected in July contain, weight for weight,
even more essential oil than the bitter almond, or cherry-laurel leaves; ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1834)
"Ten cases are brought forward in support of the author's position, that distilled
cherry-laurel water is an application which is capable of curing ..."
4. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... trees are called by this name in Great Britain, viz. the common or cherry laurel
... or cherry laurel water, is now standardized to contain 0-1% of ..."
5. A Manual of Toxicology: Including the Consideration of the Nature by John James Reese (1874)
"From the latter, a very poisonous water is distilled (cherry-laurel-water).
It also exists in the root of the mountain ash. Properly speaking, hydrocyanic ..."
6. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1869)
"This same reaction, or a modification of it, doubtless takee place on the addition
of the bruised cherry-laurel leaves to water, or even when the leaves are ..."
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