What does "arbutus" mean?
Any flowering plant in the genus Arbutus: the strawberry tree.
Arbutus
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Any flowering plant in the genus Arbutus: the strawberry tree.
- Grammar: arbutus is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: arbutus berries, arbutus fruit, arbutus genus, arbutus tree.
- Usage evidence: Arbutus unedo is a Mediterranean tree.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any flowering plant in the genus Arbutus: the strawberry tree.
"Many nights, though autumnal mists were spread around, I passed under an ilex - many times I have supped on arbutus berries and chestnuts, making a fire, gypsy-like, on the ground […]"
- 2 any of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Arbutus of temperate Europe and America wordnet
- 3 Epigaea repens, the mayflower, the trailing arbutus.
"Ah, who is he,—on whom young men and maidens look with pitying eye? to whom the old man lifts his hat, and little children cease from their sports as he passes, and quietly slip the innocent daisy, or the sweet-scented arbutus into his hand, which they have culled from the wide commons, where, they have been told, the good Sea-flower loved to stray."
- 4 Arbute; the wood of the strawberry tree.
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"Arbutus unedo is a Mediterranean tree."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "arbutus"?
Common synonyms include: arbutus berries, arbutus fruit, arbutus genus, arbutus tree, madrone, strawberry arbutus.
How do you use "arbutus" in a sentence?
Arbutus unedo is a Mediterranean tree.
Etymology
From translingual Arbutus, from Latin arbutus.