What is "bay tree"

Bay tree \Bay" tree`\ A species of laurel. ( Laurus nobilis).

n. small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors [syn: true laurel, bay, bay laurel, Laurus nobilis]

Bay tree can refer to:

• Bay laurel ( Laurus nobilis), a tree in the Lauraceae family native to Europe
• Sweet bay tree ( Magnolia virginiana), a tree in the Magnoliaceae family native to southeastern North America
• West Indian bay tree ( Pimenta racemosa), a tree in the Myrtaceae family native to the Caribbean
• California bay laurel ( Umbellularia), a tree in the Lauraceae family native to western North America
• Bay Tree, Alberta
• Bay Tree (Fabergé egg)

And sometimes confused with

• Prunus laurocerasus

The Bay tree egg (also known as the Orange tree egg) is a jewelled carved nephrite and enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1911, for Nicholas II of Russia, who presented the egg to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna on 12 April 1911.

Its 1911 counterpart, presented to the Empress, is the Fifteenth Anniversary egg.