laburnum🔊

Any tree of the genus Laburnum.

📑 Synonyms: golden chain golden rain

💬 Quotations

[…] 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[.]

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

The trees began to come fully alive. The larches and birches were covered with green, the laburnums with gold.

C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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