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Home Dictionary Name: bay treeBayberry
The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis...
Bay tree
A species of laurel Laurus nobilis...
Grass tree
An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoeliga having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous grasslike leaves from the center of which arises a long stem bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat tail These plants are often called ldquoblackboysrdquo from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire They yield two kinds of fragrant resin called Botany bay gum and Gum Acaroides...
Lauric acid
a white crystalline substance CH3CH210COOH resembling palmitic acid and obtained from the fruit of the bay tree and various other vegetable sources The sodium salt sodium lauryl sulfate is used as a detergent...
Bayed
Having a bay or bays...
Bay leaf
See under 3d Bay...
Bay State
Massachusetts which had been called the Colony of Massachusetts Bay a nickname...
Bay window
A window forming a bay or recess in a room and projecting outward from the wall either in a rectangular polygonal or semicircular form often corruptly called a bow window...
Bay, or Pen
Bay, or Pen, a pond-head made of a great height to keep in water for the supply of a mill, etc., so that the wheel of the mill may be turned by the water rushing thence, through a passage or flood-gate, 27 Eliz. C. 19. Also an arm of the sea surrounded by and except by the entrance....
Sick bays
Sick bays, defined. (Geneva Conventions Act, Sch II, Art. 28)...
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