laburnum
IPA: ɫʌbjˈurnʌm
noun
- Any tree of genus Laburnum. They have bright yellow flowers and are poisonous.
Examples of "laburnum" in Sentences
- A sheltering stand of laburnum surrounding an abandoned and unappreciated statue of Leda and her swan.
- The windows were open, and the orioles were singing in the great elm-tree, and the laburnum was a bower of gold.
- Cat pointed toward the shrubbery, the secluded stand of laburnum, Leda and her god hidden away in eternal orgasm.
- Tabex tablets contain cytosine, a substance found in the seeds of a tree called laburnum that produces yellow pea-flowers, which mimics the effect of nicotine.
- The laburnum is the train, and there are the signal-boxes, and the road up to here — and those fat red daisies are us three waving to the old gentleman — that’s him, the pansy in the laburnum train.”
- The laburnum is the train, and there are the signal-boxes, and the road up to here -- and those fat red daisies are us three waving to the old gentleman -- that's him, the pansy in the laburnum train. "
- Irishman dwelling with Englishmen, was directed to have a bow of his own height made of yew, wych-hazel, ash, or awburne -- that is, laburnum, which is still styled "awburne saugh," or awburne willow, in many parts of Scotland.