Japanese laurel

American  

noun

1. an eastern Asian evergreen shrub, Aucuba japonica, of the dogwood family, having dark-green, glossy leaves and scarlet berries.

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Example Sentences

His partner, Derek Melville, was a classical musician and a biographer of Frédéric Chopin — Rumary clipped a cutting from a Japanese laurel near the composer’s grave in Paris’s Père Lachaise cemetery that still thrives in the garden today.

From New York Times