Laurel may refer to:
Plants
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Lauraceae
Lauraceae, or the laurels, is a plant family that includes the true laurel and its closest relatives. This family comprises about 2850 known species in about 45 genera worldwide (Christenhusz & Byng 2016 ). They are dicotyledons, and occur ma ...
, the laurel family
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Laurel (plant)
Laurel is part of the English common name of many trees and other plants, particularly those of the laurel family (''Lauraceae''). Most laurels are highly poisonous.
Plants called "laurel" include:See article for additional common names.
* Alexan ...
, including a list of trees and plants known as laurel
People
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Laurel (given name) Laurel is a unisex given name. The name is of English origin from the Latin ''Lauras'' with the meaning referring to the laurel tree. Various names related to Laurel are Laura, Lauren, Lori, and Lorraine. Another related name would be the Germanic ...
, people with the given name
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Laurel (surname) Laurel is a surname which may refer to:
* Alicia Bay Laurel (born 1949), American artist, author and musician
* Arsenio Laurel (1931–1967), Filipino race car driver, son of José P. Laurel
* Brenda Laurel, an advocate for girl video game develop ...
, people with the surname
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Laurel (musician)
Laurel Arnell-Cullen, better known as Laurel, is a British indie musician based in London. Laurel received critical acclaim for writing, recording and producing all her music in her bedroom studio in London.
Career
Laurel first caught interest ...
, British indie musician Laurel Arnell-Cullen (born 1994)
Places
United States
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Laurel, California
Laurel is a ghost town in Santa Cruz County, California, United States, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It is in a valley at an elevation of above sea level.
History
A toll road was built from Los Gatos to Santa Cruz, passing through the eventu ...
, a ghost town
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Laurel, Oakland, California
The Laurel District is a diverse residential and commercial neighborhood in Oakland, California. encompassing the blocks northeast of Interstate 580 between High Street and 35th Avenue. It lies at an elevation of 226 feet (69 m), and is border ...
, a neighborhood of Oakland
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Laurel, Delaware
Laurel is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. The population was 3,708 at the time of the 2010 census. Laurel is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. It once hosted the Laurel Blue Hens of the Eas ...
, a town
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Laurel, Florida
Laurel is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sarasota County, Florida, Sarasota County, Florida, United States. The population was 8,171 at the 2010 census.
Laurel is part of the North Port, Florida, North Port–Sarasota, Florida, Sarasota ...
, a census-designated place
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Laurel, Indiana
Laurel is a town in Laurel Township, Franklin County, Indiana, United States. The population was 512 at the 2010 census.
History
Laurel was platted in 1836 by James Conwell, a native of Maryland. Conwell had first intended to name his settlement ...
, a town
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Laurel Township, Franklin County, Indiana
Laurel Township is one of thirteen townships in Franklin County, Indiana
Franklin County is a county on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Indiana. In the 2020 United States Census, the county population was 22,785. The county seat is t ...
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Laurel, Iowa
Laurel is a city in Marshall County, Iowa, United States. The population was 220 at the time of the 2020 census.
History
Laurel was platted in 1880 by Conrad Weissenburger, and it was incorporated in 1902. The city was named after Laurel, Ohio, b ...
, a city
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Laurel County, Kentucky
Laurel County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 62,613. Its county seat is London. After a special election in January 2016 alcohol sales are permitted only ...
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Laurel River
The Laurel River is a tributary of the Cumberland River in southeast Kentucky in the United States. The river drains a rural region in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, in parts of Whitley and Laurel Counties. The town of Corbin is l ...
, Kentucky
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Laurel, Maryland
Laurel is a city in Maryland, United States, located midway between Washington and Baltimore on the banks of the Patuxent River. While the city limits are entirely in northern Prince George's County, outlying developments extend into Anne Arunde ...
, a city
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Laurel, Mississippi
Laurel is a city in and the second county seat of Jones County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 17,161. It is located northeast of Ellisville, the first county seat, which contains the first coun ...
, a city
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Laurel micropolitan area, Mississippi
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Laurel, Montana
Laurel is a city in Yellowstone County, Montana, United States. It is the third largest community in the Billings Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is located in the Yellowstone Valley, as an east–west terminal division point of the Burlingto ...
, a city
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Laurel, Nebraska
Laurel is a city in Cedar County, Nebraska located at the merger of Highway 20 and Highway 15 in the northeast corner of the state. Laurel sits roughly 40 miles east of Norfolk, Nebraska, west of Sioux City, Iowa, and south of Yankton, South Dako ...
, a city
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Laurel, New York
Laurel is a census-designated place (CDP) roughly corresponding to the hamlet of Laurel in Suffolk County, New York, United States. It is located mostly within the Town of Southold, with a small portion in the Town of Riverhead. The population w ...
, a census-designated place
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Laurel, North Carolina Laurel Mill, also known as just Laurel, is an unincorporated community in northeastern Franklin County, North Carolina, United States.
It is located west of Centerville, at an elevation of 292 feet (89 m). The primary cross roads where the commu ...
, an unincorporated community
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Laurel, Ohio Laurel is an unincorporated community in Clermont County, in the U.S. state of Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 1 ...
, an unincorporated community
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Laurel Township, Hocking County, Ohio
Laurel Township is one of the eleven townships of Hocking County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 1,166.
Geography
Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships:
* Good Hope Township ...
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Laurel, Oregon
Laurel is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon, United States. Settled in 1872, the community is located between Hillsboro and Newberg, in the southern portion of the Tualatin Valley in the foothills of the Chehalem Mountai ...
, an unincorporated community
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Laurel Highlands
The Laurel Highlands is a region in southwestern Pennsylvania made up of Fayette County, Somerset County and Westmoreland County. It has a population of about 600,000 people.
The region is approximately fifty-five miles southeast of Pitts ...
, Pennsylvania
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Laurel Hill (Pennsylvania)
Laurel Hill, also known as Laurel Ridge or Laurel Mountain, is a mountain in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains. This ridge is flanked by Negro Mountain to its east and Chestnut Ridge to its west. The mountain is home to six state parks: Laure ...
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Laurel Lake (Cumberland County, Pennsylvania)
Laurel Lake — also known as Laurel Forge Pond — is a water body with recreation area at Pine Grove Furnace State Park. It is located in the eastern part of Cooke Township, Cumberland County.
History
The lake was created for supplying a water ...
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Laurel, Tennessee
Laurel is an unincorporated community, in Sevier County, Tennessee, on State Route 416 (Tennessee), north of U.S. Route 321, in the Great Smoky Mountains
The Great Smoky Mountains (, ''Equa Dutsusdu Dodalv'') are a mountain range rising along ...
, an unincorporated settlement
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Laurel, Virginia
Laurel is a census-designated place (CDP) in western Henrico County, Virginia. The population was 16,713 at the 2010 United States Census. It is the county seat of Henrico County.
It is the location of the Laurel Skate Park. The bowl was recently ...
, a census-designated place
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Laurel, Washington
Laurel is an unincorporated community in Whatcom County, Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United St ...
, an unincorporated community
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Laurel, Barbour County, West Virginia
Laurel was an unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers ...
, an unincorporated community
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Laurel Lake (Teton County, Wyoming)
Laurel Lake is located in Grand Teton National Park, in the U. S. state of Wyoming. Laurel Lake is WNW of Jenny Lake and is impounded by a terminal moraine but also lies directly along the Teton Fault
The Teton fault is a normal fault located i ...
, in Grand Teton National Park
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Laurel Mountain (disambiguation) Laurel Mountain may refer to:
*Laurel Mountain, in the Forbes State Forest of Pennsylvania
** Laurel Mountain, Pennsylvania, a borough near the Pennsylvania mountain
** Laurel Mountain Ski Resort, Pennsylvania
** Laurel Mountain State Park, Pennsyl ...
Canada
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Laurel, Edmonton, Alberta, a neighbourhood
* Laurel, a hamlet in the township of
Amaranth, Ontario
Amaranth is a township located in Dufferin County, Ontario, Canada, with a 2011 population of 3,963. It is named after the plant which grows abundantly within its borders. It is bordered by Mono to the east and East Luther to the west.
The ha ...
* Laurel, a community in
Wentworth-Nord, Quebec
Wentworth-Nord (French for North Wentworth) is a municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality.
Its communities include Saint-Michel, Laurel, and Montfort. Its many lakes at ...
Elsewhere
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Laurel, Batangas
Laurel, officially the Municipality of Laurel ( tgl, Bayan ng Laurel), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 43,210 people.
Laurel had been part of Talisay, i ...
, Philippines, a third-class municipality
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2865 Laurel, an asteroid
Ships
* , the name of several Royal Navy ships
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''Laurel''-class post ship, six ships used by the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars
* , a Union Navy steamer
* , a 1943 Cypriot ship scrapped in 1969
Other uses
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Laurel (English coin)
The Laurel was the third English gold coin with a value of twenty shillings or one pound produced during the reign of King James I. It was named after the laurel that the king is portrayed as wearing on his head, but it is considerably poorer in b ...
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The Laurel, a proposed skyscraper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
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Laurel station (disambiguation), stations of the name
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Dudley Spencer House
The Dudley Spencer House, also called Laurel, is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian home in Wilmington, Delaware.
Wright designed this home in 1956 and named it "Laurel". This house is of the hemicycle design, and is built of irregularly c ...
, also known as Laurel, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Laurel Films
Laurel Films is an independent Beijing-based production company, operated by producer and screenwriter Fang Li. The company has produced several independent films from directors such Wang Chao, Li Yu and Lou Ye.
The company was founded in 2000 ...
, a film production company
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Nissan Laurel
The Nissan Laurel is a front-engine, rear-drive two- and four-door sedan manufactured and marketed by Nissan from 1969 to 2002. Introduced in 1968 as a new model positioned above the 1968 Datsun Bluebird 510, the Laurel offered the luxury of the ...
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Laurel Awards
The Laurel Awards was an American cinema awards system established to honor films, actors, actresses, producers, directors, and composers. This award was created by the ''Motion Picture Exhibitor'' magazine, and ran from 1948 to 1971 (with the e ...
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Laurel High School (disambiguation) Laurel High School may refer to:
*Laurel High School, in Los Alamitos, California#School, Los Alamitos, California
*Laurel High School (Delaware)
*Laurel High School (Maryland)
*Laurel High School (Mississippi)
*Laurel High School (Montana)
*Laurel ...
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Laurel (LDS Church)
The Young Women (often referred to as Young Women's or Young Woman's) is a youth organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The purpose of the Young Women organization is to help each young woman "be worthy to ma ...
, the name for teenage members of the LDS Young Women's organization
*"Laurel", a song by Goldfrapp from ''
Tales of Us
''Tales of Us'' is the sixth studio album by English electronic music duo Goldfrapp, released on 6 September 2013 by Mute Records. In June 2013, the duo embarked on the Tales of Us Tour to promote the album.
Background and release
Goldfrapp b ...
''
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Laurel and Yanny
Yanny or Laurel is an auditory illusion which became popular in May 2018, in which a short audio recording of speech can be heard as one of two words. 53 percent of over 500,000 respondents to a Twitter poll reported hearing a man saying the wor ...
, an acoustic illusion that went viral on social media in 2018.
See also
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Laureles (disambiguation)
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Laurel Fork (disambiguation) Laurel Fork may refer to:
Places United States
* Laurel Fork (Cheat River), a river in West Virginia
*Laurel Fork (Clear Fork Guyandotte River)
The Laurel Fork is a tributary of the Clear Fork, long, in southern West Virginia in the United Stat ...
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Laurel wreath
A laurel wreath is a round wreath made of connected branches and leaves of the bay laurel (), an aromatic broadleaf evergreen, or later from spineless butcher's broom (''Ruscus hypoglossum'') or cherry laurel (''Prunus laurocerasus''). It is a sy ...
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Laure (disambiguation) Laure may refer to:
* ''Laure'' (film), a 1976 Italian erotic film in the Emmanuelle universe
* '' Doxocopa laure'', commonly known as the Laure, a butterfly
People
* Laura (given name) (French variant)
* Laure (art model) (fl. 1859–1867), Fr ...
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Laurell Laurell may refer to:
* Laurell K. Hamilton, American fantasy and romance writer
* Anna Laurell Nash, Swedish boxer
* Valtteri Laurell Pöyhönen, Finnish jazz guitarist, pianist, composer, bandleader and producer
* Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern, po ...
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Laurels
''Laurus nobilis'' is an aromatic evergreen tree or large shrub with green, glabrous (smooth) leaves. It is in the flowering plant family Lauraceae. It is native to the Mediterranean region and is used as bay leaf for seasoning in cookin ...
(''Laurus nobilis''), in the flowering plant family Lauraceae
* Lauryl, a
dodecyl
In organic chemistry, an alkyl group is an alkane missing one hydrogen.
The term ''alkyl'' is intentionally unspecific to include many possible substitutions.
An acyclic alkyl has the general formula of . A cycloalkyl is derived from a cycloalk ...
hydrocarbon chain
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