Definition of Arbutos
{ Ar"bu*tus (&?;), Ar"bute (&?;), }
n. [L. arbutus, akin to arbor tree.]
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- any of several broad-leaved trees of the genus Arbutus.
- the trailing arbutus.
Latin
- the wild strawberry or arbutus tree.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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