arbutus

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The dead lay where they fell in Barton's Woods, where the arbutus was in bloom and the purple violets.

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  1. noun Any of various broad-leaved evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Arbutus, including the madroña and strawberry tree, that are native chiefly to warm regions in the Americas and Europe.
  2. noun The trailing arbutus.

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  1. Latin arbutus, arbutus.

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  1. Formerly also arbute, arbut = French arbute = Italian arbuto, from Latin arbŭtus, the wild strawberry-tree; prob. akin to arbor, arbos, a tree.
 

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/cɑmmɑnljɑrˈbjutəs; æs æ Lætɪn wɑrd/
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