laurel

noun6

1. •
   An evergreen shrub of species Laurus nobilis, having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.
2. •
   Any plant of the family Lauraceae.
3. •
   [in the plural] (figurative) Honor, distinction, fame.

   • to win laurels
   • to crown with laurels
4. •
   A crown of laurel.
5. •
   Any of various plants of other families that resemble laurels.
6. •
   (historical) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.

verb3

1. •
   To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath.

   • Windows peered from the spaces between the columns, which rose to hold up the large portico laureling the home with chiseled, decorative wreaths and curving spirals. — 2014
2. •
   To award top honours to.

   • Not in any vision of that order did he figure for most of the admirers who laurelled him on his eightieth birthday and the few who go on laurelling him still. — 1927
3. •
   To enwreathe.

   • It wasn't hot this late in the year, and the sun was low in the southern sky, bracketed by pines and nearly hidden by a tree line laureling a trailer park. — 2013

noun1

1. •
   Formerly, a participant aged sixteen or seventeen years old in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.