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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: arbutus n : any of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Arbutus of temperate Europe and America From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Arbutus, MD (CDP, FIPS 1975) Location: 39.24260 N, 76.69229 W Population (1990): 19750 (7966 housing units) Area: 16.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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