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arbutus

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CIDE DICTIONARY

arbutusn. [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.  [1913 Webster]
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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

arbutus, n. any evergreen ericaceous tree or shrub of the genus Arbutus, having white or pink clusters of flowers and strawberry-like berries. Also called strawberry-tree.

Idiom
trailing arbutus US the mayflower, Epigaea repens.
Etymology
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