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Webster 1913 Edition
Arbute
{
Ar′bu-tus
,Ar′bute
, }Noun.
[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 1828 Edition
Arbute
'ARBUTE
,Noun.