Word Finder - laurel

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Laurus nobilis, an evergreen shrub having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.

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A crown of laurel.

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(chiefly in the plural) Honor, distinction, fame.

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to win laurels; to crown with laurels

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Any plant of the family Lauraceae.

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Any of various plants of other families that resemble laurels.

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An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.

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To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath.

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To enwreathe.

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To award top honours to.

When conferred for service in war the cross rests on a green laurel wreath.

We always returned to the cottage with armfuls of laurel, goldenrod, ferns and gorgeous swamp-flowers such as grow only in the South.

Many other forms of crown were used by the Romans, as the conqueror's triumphal crown of laurel, the myrtle crown, and the convivial, bridal, funeral and other crowns.

The badge is a white enamelled cross, with gold borders and balls, suspended from a royal crown and resting on a green laurel and oak wreath.

Cherry laurel are widely present on the drier surface.

Iron ore is found in the state in the coal hills (especially Laurel Hills and Beaver Lick Mountain), but the deposits have not been worked on a large scale.

Evergreens predominate in the south, where grow subtropical plants such as the myrtle, arbutus, laurel, holm-oak, olive and fig; varieties of the same kind are also found on the Atlantic coast (as far north as the Cotentin), where the humidity and mildness of the climate favor their growth.

The eastern part of the township is generally hilly, reaching a maximum altitude of about 2200 ft., and there are two considerable bodies of water - Laurel Lake in the N.W.

The ribbon is light watered blue, the collar of alternate gold elephants with blue housings and towers, the star of silver with a purple medallion bearing a silver or brilliant cross surrounded by a silver laurel wreath.

Or try the Aucuba japonica or spotted laurel, which also has beautiful dark green leaves and scarlet berries through the winter months.

At a few points, such as Nikita near Livadia and Alupka, where plants have been acclimatized by human agency, the Californian Wellingtonia, the Lebanon cedar, many evergreen trees, the laurel, the cypress, and even the Anatolian palm (Chamaerops excelsa) flourish.

Leaves of planes are abundant, and among the plants recorded are two figs, a laurel, a Robinia, a Grevillea and a palm.

The various camphors, such as laurel camphor, Borneo camphor, menthol and cumarin, are oxidized derivatives of essential oils, and differ only superficially from them in their action.

Some parts have an understorey dominated by cherry laurel, but elsewhere there is a varied ground flora with many ferns.

The laurel crown was of bay leaves, hence the word laureate.

A laurel wreath mount drapes around the white enamel dial with foliate bezel.

Along with the laurel wreath, he was a snappy dresser.

On the bottom bound of the laurel wreath is to be found the rectangular silver hallmark.

In addition, the powder from dried laurel leaves is good for stopping hemorrhage from the nose.

The walls have panels of lapis lazuli, some hung with wreaths of laurel in green jasper, within similar borders.

It's Laurel and Hardy stuff particularly when they've drunk the beer keg dry.

This is due to the forestation of the hillsides reducing the area of habitat dominated by the laurel.

When it has killed the Chameleon it takes laurel as a purge.

I'll even wear these old laurel leaves that he's shaken from his head.

They sell both the spotted laurel and the common cherry laurel.

The mountain regions are covered in evergreen laurel and heathered forests as well as extensive pine woods.

An interesting plant that is quite widespread in the wood is spurge laurel, a species with dark flossy leaves.

Contrary to their fictional personas, it was Stan Laurel who was the driving force throughout the pair's joint career.

Laurel Farm [Website] An 18th-century Farmhouse in an acre of wild and peacefully secluded grounds surrounded by mature trees and hedges.

The Laurel vanity unit teamed with a quadrant shower enclosure and fabulous 4 jet shower panel.

It was he who finally removed the last vestiges of the god Apollo, with the laurel band becoming an ear of barley.

A statue of Fame, holding a laurel wreath, was added at the last moment.

In 1881 Mr Austin returned to verse with a tragedy, Savonarola, to which he added Soliloquies in 1882, Prince Lucifer in 1887, England's Darling in 1896, The Conversion of Winckelmann in 1897, &c. A keen Conservative in politics, for several years he edited The National Review, and wrote leading articles for The Standard, On Tennyson's death in 1892 it was felt that none of the then living poets, except Swinburne or William Morris, who were outside consideration on other grounds, was of sufficient distinction to succeed to the laurel crown, and for several years no new poet-laureate was nominated.

He was crowned with laurel in his box, amid the plaudits of the audience, and did not seem to be the worse for it.

In 1902 the amount was about equally divided between the eastern coalfield, which is for the most part in Greenup, Boyd, Carter, Lawrence, Johnson, Lee, Breathitt, Rockcastle, Pulaski, Laurel, Knox, Bell and Whitley counties, and has an area of about 11,180 sq.

The military badge is a white cross with black and gold edging, resting on a green oak and laurel wreath; the central medallion bears the Prussian Eagle with the arms of Hohenzollern, and is surrounded by a blue fillet with the motto Vom Fels zum Meer; the civil badge is a black eagle, with the head encircled with a blue fillet with the motto.

Of deciduous trees the sycamore, wych-elm, horse-chestnut, beech, lime, plane and poplar may be used, - the abele or white poplar, Populus alba, being one of the most rapidgrowing of all trees, and, like other poplars, well suited for nursing other choicer subjects; while of evergreens, the holm oak, holly, laurel (both common and Portugal), and such conifers as the Scotch, Weymouth and Austrian pines, with spruce and (South.) silver firs and yews, are suitable.

Later, under the empire, when the emperor received the title for life on his accession, it became restricted to him, and the laurel was regarded as distinctive of the imperial fasces (see Mommsen, Romisches Staatsrecht, i., 188 7, p. 373).

From the latter point of view - as generalissimo of the forces of Rome, he had the right to the insignia of the commander (the laurel wreath and the fasces), and to the protection of a bodyguard, the praetoriani.

Japanese black pine, cherry laurel, Japanese plum, red buckeyes, honeylocusts, purple leaf plum and chinaberry are among the other trees classified as small.

It will alert you to hidden dangers of chemical interactions like sodium laurel sulfate found in hair shampoos, liquid dish soaps, hand lotions etc. Sodium laurel sulphate and bleach leach the petrochemicals out of plastic bottles.

Located in the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh, Fallingwater has been a museum since 1964 and welcomes visitors to tour the one-of-a-kind home and site.

Common patterns include a fleur-de-lys, a laurel wreath, and diamond shapes.

When the fresh laurel leaves dry out, this wreath is magically transformed into a true work of art with a coat of spray paint and some nutty accents and twigs topped off with dazzling berries.

Californian Laurel (Umbellularia Californica) - A handsome evergreen tree, seldom planted, though hardy in our southern gardens and suited to walls where too tender for the open.

S. ruscifolia is 2 feet or more high, of dark lustrous green, flowers milk-white, fragrant, and vieing with the Alexandrian Laurel for its utility in the cut state.

Himalayan Laurel (Aucuba) - A noble evergreen which came into this country in a curious way.

It is fine in color and hardier than the true Laurel, and has good qualities in all ways for garden or woodland.

Magnolia Grandiflora - The great Laurel Magnolia of the southern United States is, in England, best treated as a wall plant; under these conditions it thrives well and flowers freely.

The foliage is handsome, glossy like that of a Portugal Laurel, and of a fine red color in spring.