ARBUTUS

arbutus

(noun) any of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Arbutus of temperate Europe and America

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• Subartu

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

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