(a) The true laurel (Laurus nobilis.) (b) The timber of the tree Oreodaphne Leucoxylon, growing in Jamaica. The name is also applied to the timber of several other related trees.
Of or pertaining to A. G. Werner, The German
mineralogist and geologist, who classified minerals according to their
external characters, and advocated the theory that the strata of the
earth's crust were fo...