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red bay

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red bay

–noun
an evergreen tree, Persea borbonia, of the eastern coast of the U.S., having faintly bluish-green leaves and blue or blue-black, red-stalked fruit, grown as an ornamental.
Also called bull bay.


Origin:
1720–30, Americanism
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