'Bay tree' definitions:
Definition of 'bay tree'
(from WordNet)
noun
Small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors [syn: true laurel, bay, bay laurel, bay tree, Laurus nobilis]
Definition of 'Bay tree'
From: GCIDE
- Bay tree \Bay" tree`\ A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis). [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'bay tree'
From: Easton
- Bay tree named only in Ps. 37:35, Authorized Version. The Hebrew word so rendered is _ereh_, which simply means "native born", i.e., a tree not transplanted, but growing on its native soil, and therefore luxuriantly. If the psalmist intended by this word to denote any particular tree, it may have been the evergreen bay laurel (Laurus nobilis), which is a native of Palestine. Instead of "like a green bay tree" in the Authorized Version, the Revised Version has, "like a green tree in its native soil."