red bay
noun
An evergreen tree, Persea borbonia (family Lauraceae), with reddish-brown bark, which is found in swampy areas of the south-eastern United States.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in Mark Catesby (1683–1749), naturalist.
- tiger maple
- tiger moth
- tiger mother
- tiger nut
- tiger prawn
- Tigers
- tiger salamander
- tiger's eye
- tiger shark
- tiger shrimp
- tiger snake
- tiger team
- tigerwood
- tiger worm
- Tiggerish
- tight
- tight-arse
- tight-arsed
- tight-ass
- tight-assed
- tighten
- tight end
- tighten one's belt
- tighten (or loosen) the purse strings
- monumented