arbutus
(noun) any of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Arbutus of temperate Europe and America
Source: WordNet® 3.1
arbutus (plural arbutuses)
A flowering plant in the genus Arbutus: the strawberry tree.
Epigaea repens, the mayflower, the trailing arbutus.
Arbute; the wood of the strawberry tree.
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Source: Wiktionary
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
31 January 2025
(noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something; “the dispersion of the troops”; “the diffusion of knowledge”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
