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laurel bed (also laurel patch) noun A dense, sometimes impenetrable growth of rhododendron (called laurel in the mountains).

1939 Hall Coll (Proctor NC) [Kephart would] go out on them high knobs and look all about over them rough slicks, you know. We call 'em slicks, but it was just roughs, just laurel beds and ivy growed up, nothing in it hardly, just a tree once in a while ... The dogs, they just stove off the road into a little laurel patch, and there they jumped another big one [=a bear]. Ibid. (Hartford TN) He come up to a party had been a-fightin' a bear with dogs, an' it had eaten up their dogs in a laurel bed.