Definition of laurus Laurus
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What does laurus mean?
WordNet
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| laurus - small evergreen trees or shrubs with aromatic leaves | ||
| genus Laurus | ||
| magnoliid dicot genus genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms | ||
| family lauraceae, lauraceae, laurel family a family of Lauraceae | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- laurus (n.)
A genus of trees including, according to modern authors, only the true laurel (Laurus nobilis), and the larger L. Canariensis of Madeira and the Canary Islands. Formerly the sassafras, the camphor tree, the cinnamon tree, and several other aromatic trees and shrubs, were also referred to the genus Laurus.
