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Definition of Mountain laurel
1. Noun. A North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers.
2. Noun. Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood.
Generic synonyms: Laurel
Group relationships: Genus Umbellularia, Umbellularia
Definition of Mountain laurel
1. Noun. A bush, ''Kalmia latifolia'' in the family Ericaceae, native to the Eastern United States. It is a flowering evergreen, all parts of which are toxic. It is the state tree of Connecticut and Pennsylvania. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountain Laurel
Literary usage of Mountain laurel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1903)
"THE mountain laurel. Dedicated to the Massachusetts Floral Emblem Society Mrs.
Ellen A. Richardson, President and Founder — and read before the Boston ..."
2. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"2. Genus KALMIA, Linn. BB. Flowers small, in compound racemes; fruit a fleshy
drupe; bark shed in thin scales. (K. latifolia) mountain laurel 3. ..."
3. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"THE mountain laurel Teacher's Story Sa child I never doubted that the laurel
wreaths of Grecian heroes were made from mountain laurel, and I supposed, ..."
4. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"mountain laurel. SPICE-TREE. Flowers perfect, in pedunculate umbels which are
included before expansion in involucres consisting of 4 broad caducous bracts ..."
5. Histology of Medicinal Plants by William Mansfield (1916)
"mountain laurel Epidermis. The epidermal cells of mountain laurel are occasionally
... It is thus seen that mountain laurel leaf has no hypodermal cells; ..."
6. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1903)
"THE mountain laurel. Dedicated to the Massachusetts Floral Emblem Society Mrs.
Ellen A. Richardson, President and Founder — and read before the Boston ..."
7. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"2. Genus KALMIA, Linn. BB. Flowers small, in compound racemes; fruit a fleshy
drupe; bark shed in thin scales. (K. latifolia) mountain laurel 3. ..."
8. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"THE mountain laurel Teacher's Story Sa child I never doubted that the laurel
wreaths of Grecian heroes were made from mountain laurel, and I supposed, ..."
9. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"mountain laurel. SPICE-TREE. Flowers perfect, in pedunculate umbels which are
included before expansion in involucres consisting of 4 broad caducous bracts ..."
10. Histology of Medicinal Plants by William Mansfield (1916)
"mountain laurel Epidermis. The epidermal cells of mountain laurel are occasionally
... It is thus seen that mountain laurel leaf has no hypodermal cells; ..."
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