NOUN
- Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood
- a North American evergreen shrub having glossy leaves and white or rose-colored flowers
How To Use mountain laurel In A Sentence
- In Kentucky, the plant is often associated with azaleas, mountain laurels and bellworts under the dappled shade of birch trees.
- Unlike durable pieris, its relative, mountain laurel is tempermental. RHODODENDRON COMPANIONS FOR SPRING
- The mountainside was alive with blooms: dogwood, rhododendron, flame azaleas, along with budding mountain laurel. NOBODY'S BABY BUT MINE
- Other mountain flora found here include rhododendron, azalea, galax, mountain laurel, pitch pine, table mountain pine, and various ferns. Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA)
- I dove to my left again, and this time rolled into a somersault that landed me in a thicket of mountain laurel at the base of the ridge.
- I crawled to the back end of the mountain laurel thicket.
- The firing direction points only to impassible tangles of mountain laurel and hummocky swamp behind my earth filled 55 gallon drums for backstop. Guns = "Unhealthy" Lifestyle?
- Other than the occasional patch of mountain laurel, it was a very thinly wooded area.
- Black gum (Nyssa sylvatica Marshall.), red maple, and sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum (L.) DC.) occupied the subcanopy, and mountain laurel dominated the understory.
- Any evergreen rhododendron or mountain laurel will provide a touch of leafy green.
