laurustinus

American  

[lawr-uh-stahy-nuhs] / ˌlɔr əˈstaɪ nəs /

noun

1. a southern European evergreen shrub, Viburnum tinus, of the honeysuckle family, having large clusters of white or pinkish flowers.

---

laurustinus British  

/ ˌlɔːrəˈstaɪnəs /

noun

1. a Mediterranean caprifoliaceous shrub, Viburnum tinus, with glossy evergreen leaves and white or pink fragrant flowers

---

Etymology

Origin of laurustinus

1655–65; < New Latin, formerly laurus tīnus ( Latin laurus laurel + tīnus a plant, perhaps laurustinus)

Example Sentences

It was already dark where he stood in the shadow of a huge laurustinus; but there was light enough to show that with a fiend’s face he was contemplating the canal.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

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

A whiff of perfume from the laurustinus in the drive came back, the scent of hay, and with it the sound of the mowing-machine going over the lawn.

From A Prisoner in Fairyland by Blackwood, Algernon

Then came a walled kitchen-garden, with some big shrubs, bay and laurustinus, rising plumply within; beyond which the grey house, spread thin with plaster, held up its gables and chimneys over a stone-tiled roof.

From At Large by Benson, Arthur Christopher

She stepped close to the spot from where the sound proceeded, and, craning her neck, looked over the thick laurustinus bushes, which enclosed a very tiny lawn or plot of grass.

From Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World by Meade, L. T.