DOG LAUREL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dog laurel mean? 

• DOG LAUREL (noun)
  The noun DOG LAUREL has 1 sense:

1. fast-growing evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having arching interlaced branches and racemes of white flowers

  Familiarity information: DOG LAUREL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOG LAUREL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fast-growing evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having arching interlaced branches and racemes of white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

dog hobble; dog laurel; Leucothoe editorum; Leucothoe fontanesiana; switch-ivy

Hypernyms ("dog laurel" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("dog laurel" is a member of...):

genus Leucothoe (American and Asiatic deciduous and evergreen shrubs)