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Laurestine

Laurestine \Lau"res*tine\, n. [NL. lautus tinus, fr. L. laurus the laurel + tinus laurestine. See Laurel.] (Bot.) The Viburnum Tinus, an evergreen shrub or tree of the south of Europe, which flowers during the winter months. [Written also laurustine and laurestina.]

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laurestine

n. (context botany English) The (taxlink Viburnum tinus species noshow=1), an evergreen shrub or tree of the south of Europe, which flowers during the winter months.

Usage examples of "laurestine".

Thence she wandered into all the nooks around the place from which the sound seemed to proceed—among the huge laurestines, about the tufts of pampas grasses, amid the variegated hollies, under the weeping wych-elm—nobody was there.