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Ancient Rome's gold medal was a plant you could put in soup.
means A laurel is an evergreen shrub or tree (the bay tree) whose aromatic leaves were woven into wreaths to crown victors, poets, and champions — hence to win laurels, or to rest on them.
from From Latin laurus, the bay tree sacred to Apollo, whose foliage crowned triumphant Romans. The Latin word passed into Old French as lorier and on into English. Greek myth ties it to the nymph Daphne, who became a laurel to escape Apollo's pursuit — which is why the same leaf flavors your stew and crowns your poets. The Latin also seeds words like 'laureate' and the name Laura.
- victory crown
- Roman generals wore it; we still 'rest on laurels'
- daphne myth
- A nymph became one fleeing Apollo's lust
- poet laureate
- The title literally means 'crowned with laurel'
- kitchen spy
- Bay leaves are dried laurel, hiding in your stew
- toxic cousins
- Many ornamental laurels are dangerously poisonous
laurel and hardy — comedy duo performing slapstick films together from 1927-1951
laurel mississippi — city in jones county, home to the lauren rogers museum of art
ralph lauren — fashion designer founded polo ralph lauren in 1968