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Meanings of bay tree in English
(Laurus nobilis) A shrub of the family Lauraceae.
Synonyms
Examples for "bay"
Examples for "bay"
1
In the morning of the 10th, the Discovery arrived in the bay.
2
Keeping Angela Merkel at bay might be a good place to start.
3
Police held the crowd at the bay and there was no violence.
4
We gazed west to the sea and shoreline towns across the bay.
5
She had a great deal of experience keeping such panic at bay.
1
It writhed and groaned, while the wind roared in the laurel walk.
2
He did not even reach the laurel-trees however, before the guards arrived.
3
Earlier in the season laurel and honeysuckle shed their fragrance into it.
4
Caesar was a laurel-crowned blackguard in his relations with the divine Cleopatra.
5
Here they feed upon the leaves of the laurel and other evergreens.
1
Poison oak, sweet bay trees, calcanthus, brush, and chaparral, grew freely but sparsely all about it.
2
Huge aloes grow in the shade, and the sweet bay and bushes of rosemary make the air fresh and fragrant.
3
It's made from the leaves of the sweet bay tree, which grows on all these islands and all over this country.
4
Even if I'd believed her story, I couldn't hate the magnificent laurel groves that encircled the villa and lent it a sweet bay perfume.
1
The name is extended to other plants which in some respect resemble the true laurel.
2
For the true laurel-wreath which glory weaves
1
A huge California bay laurel tree grew thirty feet from the back of the house, its massive arms stretching leafy branches in a hundred directions.
2
Bay laurel trees, each standing taller than a man, filled the air with fragrance.
Usage of bay tree in English
1
A lattice shed had been built beyond the washhouse past the bay tree.
2
Mr. Brown found a more lowly seat beneath a bay tree.
3
It is furnished by the bay tree, which grows here.
4
They looked like a bunch of monkeys climbing around in the big bay tree.
5
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green- bay tree.
6
The bay tree was believed to have the property of protection against fire or lightning.
7
He must have climbed up by the bay tree.
8
Christmas is about to crash down, like a sad drunk into a decorative bay tree.
9
I myself have seen the ungodly in great power; and flourishing like a green bay tree.
10
We can sit under the bay tree and talk about what I can and can't do.
11
He flourishes like a green bay tree instead.
12
Business was flourishing like a green bay tree.
13
Blackbeard slowly lowered his head, and glared at a berry-decked bay tree in front of him.
14
He had prospered like the bay tree.
15
Spreading himself like a green bay tree.
16
The big bay tree loomed ahead.