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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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