ARBUTES

Noun

arbutes

plural of arbute

Anagrams

• Buteras, Stauber, Straube, surbate, surbeat

Source: Wiktionary


ARBUTE

Ar"bu*tus, Ar"bute, n. Etym: [L. arbutus, akin to arbor tree.]

Definition: The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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