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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of ericaceous plants, of two species, one a native of Asia, the other, E. repens, the well-known Mayflower or trailing arbutus of the United States.
  • noun In entomology, a genus of lepidopterous insects.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) An American genus of plants, containing but a single species (E. repens), the trailing arbutus.

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