family Lauraceae

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family Lauraceae - a family of Lauraceae Lauraceae, laurel family magnoliid dicot family - family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms order Ranales, order Ranunculales, Ranales, Ranunculales - herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae laurel - any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family genus Laurus, Laurus - small evergreen trees or shrubs with aromatic leaves Cinnamomum, genus Cinnamomum - Asiatic and Australian aromatic trees and shrubs genus Lindera, Lindera - aromatic evergreen or deciduous dioecious shrubs or trees of eastern Asia and North America genus Benzoin, Benzoin - used in some classifications for the American spicebush and certain other plants often included in the genus Lindera genus Persea, Persea - avocado genus Sassafras - a genus of sassafras genus Umbellularia, Umbellularia - aromatic evergreen trees of Pacific coast