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laburnum en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ləˈbɜːnəm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ləˈbɝnəm/ (General-American)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laburnum.

Meanings

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[.] 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 1:
   • The trees began to come fully alive. The larches and birches were covered with green, the laburnums with gold. 1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, published 1998:

Forms

Deriveds

Scotch laburnum · Scottish laburnum · alpine laburnum · laburnine · Dalmatian laburnum

Synonyms

golden chain · gold chain · golden rain

Translations (24)

cmn 金急雨 (any tree of genus Laburnum) · pl złotodeszcz (any tree of genus Laburnum) · fr cytise (any tree of genus Laburnum) · hu aranyeső (any tree of genus Laburnum) · cmn 毒豆 (any tree of genus Laburnum) · it maggiociondolo (any tree of genus Laburnum) · ru золото́й дождь (any tree of genus Laburnum) · ota صاری صالقم (any tree of genus Laburnum) · fi kultasadepensas (any tree of genus Laburnum) · de Goldregen (any tree of genus Laburnum) · sv gullregn (any tree of genus Laburnum) · bg златен дъжд (any tree of genus Laburnum) · fi kultasade (any tree of genus Laburnum) · vec ègano (any tree of genus Laburnum) · da guldregn (any tree of genus Laburnum) · cmn 臘腸樹 /腊肠树 (any tree of genus Laburnum) · cmn 金鏈花 /金链花 (any tree of genus Laburnum) · tr sarısalkım (any tree of genus Laburnum) · ru раки́тник (any tree of genus Laburnum) · fr laburnum (any tree of genus Laburnum) · la laburnum (any tree of genus Laburnum) · uk золоти́й дощ (any tree of genus Laburnum) · pl złotokap (any tree of genus Laburnum) · it laburno (any tree of genus Laburnum)