Also 7–8 laurus tinus, 9 erron. laures-, lauristinus. [a. mod.L. (orig. two words) laurus tīnus (L. laurus laurel, tīnus a plant, perh. the laurustinus).] An evergreen winter-flowering shrub, Viburnum Tinus.
1664. Evelyn, Kal. Hort. (1679), 9, January … Flowers in Prime … Prim-roses, Laurus-tinus, Mezereon.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v., There are three Sorts of the Laurus Tinus cultivated in our Country.
1765. Wilkes, Corr. (1805), II. 140. Laurels and laurustinuses were in all the hedges.
1840. Barham, Ingol. Leg., Ser. I. Spectre Tappington. From the midst of a thickset laurustinus [he] drew forth a gardener’s spade.
1861. Delamer, Fl. Gard., 3. Laurustinuses,… and even Portugal laurels, are kept in tubs, that they may be housed when frost comes.
1882. J. Hardy, in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, IX. No. 3. 435. The Laurestinuses have been sore damaged.
