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Definition of Sweet bay
1. Noun. Shrub or small tree having rather small fragrant white flowers; abundant in southeastern United States.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweet Bay
Literary usage of Sweet bay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"... though they do not cause the tree as to the production of ; thus cabbage and
sweet bay have looks away,3 as though the smell to it. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The sweet-bay of America is the small tree (Magnolia vir- ... SWEET-BAY, the
classic laurel (Laurus SWEET-FERN, a low shrub (Comptonia peregrina), ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"SWEET-BAY, the classic laurel (Laurus nobilis), or bay-tree of the Mediterranean
regions, ... The sweet-bay oi America is the small tree (Magnolia vtr- ..."
4. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"... though they do not cause the tree as to the production of ; thus cabbage and
sweet bay have looks away,3 as though the smell to it. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The sweet-bay of America is the small tree (Magnolia vir- ... SWEET-BAY, the
classic laurel (Laurus SWEET-FERN, a low shrub (Comptonia peregrina), ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"SWEET-BAY, the classic laurel (Laurus nobilis), or bay-tree of the Mediterranean
regions, ... The sweet-bay oi America is the small tree (Magnolia vtr- ..."
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