English > family Lauraceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | A family of Lauraceae. |
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Synonyms | Lauraceae, laurel family |
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Member of | Ranales, order Ranales, Ranunculales, order Ranunculales | herbs, shrubs and trees |
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Members | Benzoin, genus Benzoin | Used in some classifications for the American spicebush and certain other plants often included in the genus Lindera |
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Cinnamomum, genus Cinnamomum | Asiatic and Australian aromatic trees and shrubs |
Laurus, genus Laurus | small evergreen trees or shrubs with aromatic leaves |
Lindera, genus Lindera | aromatic evergreen or deciduous dioecious shrubs or trees of eastern Asia and North America |
Persea, genus Persea | avocado |
Umbellularia, genus Umbellularia | aromatic evergreen trees of Pacific coast |
genus Sassafras | A genus of sassafras |
laurel | Any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family |
Broader | magnoliid dicot family | family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms |
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Spanish | lauráceas |
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Catalan | Lauraceae, lauràcia |
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