Laurel
- n. An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king’s head on it was crowned with laurel.
- n. An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus (L. nobilis), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; — called also sweet bay.
- n. A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; — especially in the plural; as, to win laurels.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.