Bay leaf ( plural bay leaves ) refers to the aromatic leaf of the bay laurel ( Laurus nobilis, Lauraceae ).

Bay ( laurel ) leaves are frequently packaged as tejpatta ( the Hindi term for Indian bay leaf ), creating confusion between the two herbs.

Bay leaf has also been shown to help the body process insulin more efficiently, which leads to lower blood sugar levels, and to reduce the effects of stomach ulcers.

Bay leaf contains eugenol, which has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.

Bay leaf is also an antifungal and antibacterial, and has also been used to treat rheumatism, amenorrhea, and colic.

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* Bay leaf, the aromatic leaves of several species of the Laurel family

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Carbon isotopes of lipids ( n-alkanes ) derived from leaf wax and lignin, and total organic carbon from two sections of lake sediments interbedded with the in eastern North America have shown carbon isotope excursions similar to those found in the mostly marine St. Audrie ’ s Bay section, Somerset, England ; the correlation suggests that the end-Triassic extinction event began at the same time in marine and terrestrial environments, slightly before the oldest basalts in eastern North America but simultaneous with the eruption of the oldest flows in Morocco ( Also suggested by Deenen et al., 2010 ), with both a critical greenhouse and a marine biocalcification crisis.

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This decomposing leaf from a California Bay Laurel or Oregon Myrtle tree ( Umbellularia californica ) illustrates the camouflage possibilities of the yellow and black coloration of the Pacific Banana Slug ( Ariolimax columbianus ).

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* Bay leaf, a leaf of the bay laurel

* Laurus nobilis L., known commonly as Bay Laurel, True Laurel, Sweet Bay, Grecian Laurel, or simply Laurel, is the source of the spice Bay leaf.

A Bay State supporter said, `` Mr. Hearst's fight has been helped along greatly by the starting of his paper in Boston ''.

Mocking Byrd, p, 2:01.1 has been in 2:12, with a racing date approaching at Bay Meadows.

The ecoregion has forests of Turkish Pine ( Pinus brutia ), oak forests and woodlands, and maquis shrubland of Turkish Pine and evergreen sclerophyllous trees and shrubs, including Olive ( Olea europaea ), Strawberry Tree ( Arbutus unedo ), Arbutus andrachne, Kermes Oak ( Quercus coccifera ), and Bay Laurel ( Laurus nobilis ).

The ACT also has a small strip of territory around the southern end of the Beecroft Peninsula, which is the northern headland of Jervis Bay.

It is said that Alameda has more pre-1906 earthquake era homes than any other city in the Bay Area.

* Bay platform, a dead-end platform at a railway station which has through lines

The award has never been presented to a member of the following five teams: Arizona Diamondbacks, Miami Marlins, New York Mets, Tampa Bay Rays, and Washington Nationals.

In the Royal Navy the battle has been commemorated by the ship names HMS Aboukir and HMS Nile and in 1998 the 200th anniversary of the battle was commemorated by a visit to Aboukir Bay by the modern frigate HMS Somerset, whose crew laid wreaths in memory of those who lost their lives in the battle.

Buddhists are a tiny minority ( 105 in 2001, according to Statistics Canada ), although Gampo Abbey in Pleasant Bay has been operational since 1984.

While the Cape Breton Regional Municipality is in transition from an industrial to a service-based economy, the rest of Cape Breton Island outside of the industrial area surrounding Sydney-Glace Bay has been more stable, with a mixture of fishing, forestry, small-scale agriculture, and tourism.

The team has a storied, long-standing rivalry with the Green Bay Packers, whom they have played 185 times.

The band has released two live albums of archival performances on Manifesto Records: Mutiny on the Bay, compiled from various live shows including a recording from their last show with Biafra in 1986, and Live at the Deaf Club, a recording of a 1979 performance at the Deaf Club in San Francisco which was greeted with more enthusiasm.

Cornet Bay offers boat launches and fishing opportunities, while Bowman Bay has an interpretive center that explains the story of the Civilian Conservation Corps throughout Washington state.

Although the area of Dublin Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times, the writings of Ptolemy ( the Egyptian astronomer and cartographer ) in about 140 AD provide possibly the earliest reference to a settlement there.

Anchor Bay Entertainment has since acquired the DVD rights to the film, and their subsequent releases have surrendered the rating to allow them to release the film unrated.

The city has produced or been home to musicians that have been extremely successful in modern times, particularly Ian Anderson, frontman of the band Jethro Tull ; Wattie Buchan, lead singer and founding member of punk band The Exploited ; Shirley Manson, lead singer for the band Garbage ; The Proclaimers ; the Bay City Rollers ; Boards of Canada and Idlewild.

Godzilla 1985 has been released on home video several times in the U. S. The first release was by New World in the mid 80's, another by Starmaker video ( who had acquired some of New World's library ) in the 1992, and again by Anchor Bay in 1997 All home video releases include the Bambi Meets Godzilla animated short with the exception of the Starmaker release.

Greenland has offered 8 license blocks for tender along its west coast by Baffin Bay.

Since 2002, the naval base has contained a military prison, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, for persons alleged to be unlawful combatants captured in Afghanistan and later in Iraq.

U. S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay has an annual rainfall of about 24 inches.

By 1860, wheat farms had been established from Encounter Bay in the south to Clare in the north.

Based on the amber, the island could have been Heligoland, Zealand, the shores of Bay of Gdansk, Sambia or the Curonian Lagoon, which were historically the richest sources of amber in northern Europe.

Arizona had originally been intended to join Tampa Bay in the American League.

Bay leaves have been used in entomology as the active ingredient in killing jars.

Bay leaves and berries have been used for their astringent, carminative, diaphoretic, digestive, diuretic, emetic and stomachic properties.

The United States had been embarrassed publicly by the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961, which had been launched under President John F. Kennedy by CIA-trained forces of Cuban exiles.

Vancouver wrote of Whidbey's efforts: " This determined shore they had been exploring to be an island, which, in consequence of Mr. Whidbey ’ s circumnavigation, I distinguished by the name of Whidbey ’ s Island: and this northern pass, leading into Bay, Deception Passage ".

West Cornwall, around Mount's Bay, was traditionally thought to have been visited by metal traders from the eastern Mediterranean During the first millennium BC trade became more organised, first with the Phoenicians, who settled Gades ( Cadiz ) around 1100 BC, and later with the Greeks, who had settled Massilia ( Marseilles ) and Narbo ( Narbonne ) around 600 BC.

The generally accepted location of Drake's New Albion is Drakes Bay, California, although more than a score of other notions have been offered.

Between 1846 and 1874, an estimated 8, 000 gray whales were killed by American and European whalemen, with over half having been killed in the Magdalena Bay complex ( Estero Santo Domingo, Magdalena Bay itself, and Almejas Bay ) and by shore whalemen in California and Baja California.