Laburnum
/ləˈbɝnəm/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any tree of the genus Laburnum.
"[…] Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs[.]"
Example
More examples"[…] Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs[.]"
Etymology
From Latin laburnum.