Cherry laurel Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun frequently cultivated Eurasian evergreen shrub or small tree having showy clusters of white flowers and glossy foliage and yielding oil similar to bitter almond oil
    laurel cherry; Prunus laurocerasus.
  2. noun small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States
    laurel cherry; mock orange; wild orange; Prunus caroliniana.

WordNet

Definitions
  1. (in England called laurel). See under Cherry.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.), an evergren shrub (Prunus Lauro-cerasus) common in shrubberies, the poisonous leaves of which have a flavor like that of bitter almonds.

Webster 1913