BAY TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bay tree mean? 

• BAY TREE (noun)
  The noun BAY TREE has 1 sense:

1. small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors

  Familiarity information: BAY TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAY TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bay; bay laurel; bay tree; Laurus nobilis; true laurel

Hypernyms ("bay tree" is a kind of...):

laurel (any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family)

Meronyms (parts of "bay tree"):

bay leaf (dried leaf of the bay laurel)

Holonyms ("bay tree" is a member of...):

genus Laurus; Laurus (small evergreen trees or shrubs with aromatic leaves)

 Context examples 

The essential oil from the leaves of the West Indian bay tree.

(Bay Oil (Pimenta Racemosa), NCI Thesaurus)