red-bay

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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red bay

noun
small tree of southern United States having dark red heartwood [syn: laurel-tree] 
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