Found 2 items, similar to swamp laurel.
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Definition: swamp laurel
swamp laurel
n 1: laurel of bogs of northwestern United States having small
purple flowers and pale leaves that are glaucous beneath
[syn:
bog laurel,
bog kalmia,
Kalmia polifolia]
2: shrub or small tree having rather small fragrant white
flowers; abundant in southeastern United States [syn:
sweet bay
,
swamp bay,
Magnolia virginiana]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Swamp laurel
Swamp
\Swamp\, n. [Cf. AS. swam a fungus, OD. swam a sponge, D.
zwam a fungus, G. schwamm a sponge, Icel. sv["o]ppr, Dan. &
Sw. swamp, Goth. swamms, Gr. somfo`s porous, spongy.]
Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but
not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the
seashore.
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Gray swamps and pools, waste places of the hern.
--Tennyson.
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A swamp differs from a bog and a marsh in producing
trees and shrubs, while the latter produce only
herbage, plants, and mosses. --Farming
Encyc. (E.
Edwards,
Words).
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Swamp blackbird. (Zo["o]l.) See
Redwing
(b) .
Swamp cabbage (Bot.), skunk cabbage.
Swamp deer (Zo["o]l.), an Asiatic deer (
Rucervus Duvaucelli
) of India.
Swamp hen. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) An Australian azure-breasted bird (
Porphyrio bellus);
-- called also
goollema.
(b) An Australian water crake, or rail (
Porzana Tabuensis);
-- called also
little swamp hen.
(c) The European purple gallinule.
Swamp honeysuckle (Bot.), an American shrub (
Azalea viscosa
syn.
Rhododendron viscosa or
Rhododendron viscosum
) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers
of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called
also
swamp pink and
white swamp honeysuckle.
Swamp hook, a hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling
logs. Cf.
Cant hook.
Swamp itch. (Med.) See
Prairie itch, under
Prairie.
Swamp laurel (Bot.), a shrub (
Kalmia glauca) having small
leaves with the lower surface glaucous.
Swamp maple (Bot.), red maple. See
Maple.
Swamp oak (Bot.), a name given to several kinds of oak
which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak
(
Quercus palustris), swamp white oak (
Q. bicolor),
swamp post oak (
Q. lyrata).
Swamp ore (Min.), bog ore; limonite.
Swamp partridge (Zo["o]l.), any one of several Australian
game birds of the genera
Synoicus and
Excalfatoria,
allied to the European partridges.
Swamp robin (Zo["o]l.), the chewink.
Swamp sassafras (Bot.), a small North American tree of the
genus
Magnolia (
M. glauca) with aromatic leaves and
fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also
sweet bay
.
Swamp sparrow (Zo["o]l.), a common North American sparrow
(
Melospiza Georgiana, or
M. palustris), closely
resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy
places.
Swamp willow. (Bot.) See
Pussy willow, under
Pussy.
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