Laurel (Noun)
Meaning 1
United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Synonyms
Meaning 2
Any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- Pepperwood
- Bay Tree
- Persea Borbonia
- Ceylon Cinnamon Tree
- Mountain Laurel
- Sassafras Laurel
- Cinnamomum Zeylanicum
- California Bay Tree
- Spice Tree
- Cinnamomum Camphora
- Oregon Myrtle
- Red Bay
- Cassia-bark Tree
- Bay Laurel
- Sassafras Tree
- California Olive
- Sassafras Albidum
- Umbellularia Californica
- Cinnamomum Cassia
- Bay
- Laurus Nobilis
- Ceylon Cinnamon
- Cinnamomum Loureirii
Meaning 3
(antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.