English > laurel family: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | A family of Lauraceae. |
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| Synonyms | Lauraceae, family Lauraceae |
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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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