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Any of several small trees with aromatic leaves, especially the sweet bay, or bay laurel ( Laurus nobilis ), source of the bay leaf used in cooking.
The California laurel ( Umbellularia californica ) is an ornamental tree also called the bay tree. The bay rum tree, or simply bay ( Pimenta racemosa ), has leaves and twigs that yield, when distilled, oil of bay, which is used in perfumery and in the preparation of bay rum, a fragrant cosmetic and medicinal liquid.
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In architecture, any division of a building between vertical lines or planes, especially the entire space included between the centerlines of two adjacent vertical supports.
The space between two columns or pier to pier in a church, including that part of the vaulting (see vault ) or ceiling between them, is thus called a bay.
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Semicircular or nearly circular concavity, similar to a gulf but usually smaller.
Bays may range from a few hundred yards to several hundred miles from side to side. They are usually located where easily eroded rocks, such as clays and sandstones, are bounded by harder, more erosion-resistant formations of igneous rocks, such as granite, or hard calcareous rocks, such as massive limestones. Some bays form excellent harbours.
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Frobisher Bay
Dublin Bay prawn
Abu Qir Bay
Atchafalaya Bay
Baffin Bay
Barataria Bay
Bay of Pigs invasion
Bay Laguna de
Bengal Bay of
Biscayne Bay
Botany Bay
Buzzards Bay
Cádiz Bay of
Cam Ranh Bay
Campeche Bay of
Cardigan Bay
Chaleur Bay
Chesapeake Bay
Conception Bay
Coos Bay
Marshfield Bay
Corpus Christi Bay
Delagoa Bay
Delaware Bay
Faxa Bay
Fundy Bay of
Georgian Bay
Glacier Bay
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
Grand Traverse Bay
Green Bay
Guantánamo Bay
Hervey Bay
Hudson Bay
Hudson's Bay Co.
Islands Bay of
Jamaica Bay
James Bay
Jervis Bay
Manila Bay
Manila Bay Battle of
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Milne Bay
Mobile Bay
Mobile Bay Battle of
Montego Bay
Moreton Bay
Naples Bay of
Narragansett Bay
Passamaquoddy Bay
Peter the Great Bay
Prudhoe Bay
Quinte Bay of
San Francisco Bay
Subic Bay
Table Bay
Tampa Bay
Thunder Bay
Tokyo Bay
Ungava Bay
Walvis Bay
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Biscay Bay of