laurustinus
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of laurustinus
1655–65; < New Latin, formerly laurus tīnus ( Latin laurus laurel + tīnus a plant, perhaps laurustinus)
Example Sentences
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Honora had the breakfast table covered with flowers, primroses, violets, polyanthus, and laurustinus, and some of Sophy's own snowdrops, double and single, which obligingly lingered on purpose to celebrate the day.
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
Get some boughs of laurustinus, and variegated box, and yew, and boy's-love; ay, and some bunches of chrysanthemum.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas
Presently it comes to view again from behind the huge laurustinus bush, and they are now quite convinced it is indeed the amorous parson.
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
Most of the hills through which they strike, after starting from Ajaccio, are clothed with a thick brushwood of box, ilex, lentisk, arbutus, and laurustinus, which stretches down irregularly into vineyards, olive-gardens, and meadows.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
The picnic, which was partaken of by Annie, Nell, and Boris on the tiny lawn, surrounded by the laurustinus hedge, was a truly gay affair.
From Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World by Meade, L. T.
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