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1. Any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family
    
2. (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory
   - laurel wreath, bay wreath

1. United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965)
   - Stan Laurel, Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel

Derived forms: laureling, laurels

Type of: angiospermous tree, chaplet, comedian, comic, coronal, flowering tree, funnyman, garland, lei, wreath

Part of: family Lauraceae, Lauraceae, Laurel and Hardy, laurel family

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