Meaning of Arbutus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any flowering plant in the genus Arbutus: the strawberry tree.
2. Epigaea repens, the mayflower, the trailing arbutus.
3. Arbute; the wood of the strawberry tree.

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Examples

“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 […]”

“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.”

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