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Definition of Laurel family
1. Noun. A family of Lauraceae.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Ranales, Order Ranunculales, Ranales, Ranunculales
Member holonyms: Laurel, Genus Laurus, Laurus, Cinnamomum, Genus Cinnamomum, Genus Lindera, Lindera, Benzoin, Genus Benzoin, Genus Persea, Persea, Genus Sassafras, Genus Umbellularia, Umbellularia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laurel Family
Literary usage of Laurel family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"laurel family. Aromatic trees and shrubs, with alternate (very rarely opposite)
mostly thick evergreen or deciduous, punctate exstipulate leaves. ..."
2. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"laurel family. Aromatic evergreen trees and shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple,
entire, without stipules. Flowers perfect and regular. Petals none. ..."
3. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... especially when they are crushed, emit a most delightful fragrance, suggestive
of the spicy scent of wild woodsy strawberries. THE laurel family. ..."
4. Tropical Agriculture: A Treatise on the Culture, Preparation, Commerce and by Peter Lund Simmonds (1889)
"Many of the trees of the laurel family, to which the Cinnamon and Cassia belong,
... laurel family ..."
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