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arbutus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arbutus \Ar"bu*tus\, Arbute \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 ( Epig[ae]a 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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A flowering plant in the genus ''Arbutus'': the strawberry tree. 2 (taxlink Epigaea repens species noshow=1), the mayflower, the trailing arbutus. 3 arbute; the wood of the strawberry tree.
WordNet
n. any of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Arbutus of temperate Europe and America
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Wikipedia
Arbutus is a genus of 11 accepted species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae, native to warm temperate regions of the Mediterranean, western Europe, and North America. The name is borrowed from Latin, where it referred to A. unedo.
Arbutus may refer to:
In botany- Arbutus, a genus of trees in the family Ericaceae
- Arbutus menziesii or Pacific Madrone, commonly known as Arbutus in British Columbia
- Epigaea repens, known as arbutus or trailing arbutus, a wild plant of the heath family
- Arbutus unedo, the strawberry tree, sometimes simply referred to as the Arbutus
- A common mistranslation from Chinese of Myrica rubra (Chinese Bayberry)
- Arbutus, Maryland, an unincorporated community in the United States
- Arbutus (Aladdin), a cartoon villain from Disney's Aladdin
- Arbutus Records, a Montreal-based record label
- HMS Arbutus, various Royal Navy ships
- HMNZS Arbutus (K403), a corvette of the Royal New Zealand Navy 1944-48
- Arbutus, British Columbia, a former post office in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, British Columbia
- Arbutus Bay, a bay on the south side of Bowen Island, British Columbia
- Arbutus Cove, a cove in Saanich, British Columbia, between Ten Mile Point and Gordon Head
- Arbutus Creek, a creek in British Columbia, entering the head of Finlayson Inlet on Vancouver Island
- Arbutus Grove Provincial Park, a provincial park on the south side of Nanoose Harbour, British Columbia
- Arbutus Island, a small island near Swartz Bay on Vancouver Island, British Columbia
- Arbutus Point, a headland on Vancouver Island near Crofton, British Columbia
- Arbutus Ridge, a neighbourhood within the City of Vancouver, British Columbia
- Arbutus Summit, a mountain near Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada
Usage examples of "arbutus".
Volvo across the city, along Macurtain Street, and turned left up the hill to the Arbutus Lodge.
Passing over the nightstand, his fingers touch a box of aspirin, brush the preserved Epigaea repens, and curl around the neck of the half-full Arbutus bottle.
Mr Arbutus to answer in kind and reversing the natural order of things to tell Mr Gibling and Mr Gibling to sue and be damned.
When the arbutus and myrtle berries are ripe the blackbirds are eagerly hunted, as at that time they are plump and make very savoury and delicate eating.
And yet I have seen a sprig of arbutus in rough and clumsy buttonholes on weather-faded lapels which, the rest of the twelve-month through, know no other flower.
And so Jonathan knows that in choosing his brook for that particular day, he must have regard primarily to the arbutus it will give us and only secondarily to the trout.
It is curious how arbutus, which never grows in wet places, yet seems to like the neighborhood of water.
The fact is, Jonathan cares a little more about the trout than about the arbutus, while I care a little more about the arbutus than about the trout.
I went back to that upper path to look up two or three special arbutus clumps that I knew, but seeing his depression over the snag incident, I could not suggest this.
Chapter Eight The chateau, a modern building in Italian style, with two projecting wings and three flights of steps, lay at the foot of an immense green-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees set out at regular intervals, while large beds of arbutus, rhododendron, syringas, and guelder roses bulged out their irregular clusters of green along the curve of the gravel path.
They wandered round the small square and she bought postcards and obediently drank Mad- ron ho, distilled from arbutus berries.
And beside this can Jean would find, every day, something particular,--a blossom of the red geranium that bloomed in the farmhouse window, a piece of cake with plums in it, a bunch of trailing arbutus,--once it was a little bit of blue ribbon, tied in a certain square knot--so--perhaps you know that sign too?
A narrow path beneath over-arching boughs of cherry-laurel and arbutus, immediately facing the lodge, caught her eye, and down this she at once turned her footsteps.
They should have been thyme, he thought, thyme and arbutus and tamarisk clothing the capes of the Sicilian sea, for this was a night of Theocritus.
You know, of course, that in the micaceous schist of those parts the arbutus is a usual sight and that therefore Charaxes jasius, the Two-Tailed Pasha, is not so rare as he is elsewhere in Europe.