sheep laurel

American  

noun

1. a low North American shrub, Kalmia angustifolia, of the heath family, having oblong leaves poisonous to grazing animals.

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Etymology

Origin of sheep laurel

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

Example Sentences

For twelve years, while Elinor bore children,-Frost raised chickens, taught school, battled the grudging soil, fought back encroaching witch grass and sheep laurel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here and there on the mountain side and along the highroad he noticed the massed pink and white clusters of the sheep laurel.

From Flamsted quarries by Nelson, G. Patrick