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Alt. of Arbute

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  1. n. Alt. of Arbute
  2. n. any of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Arbutus of temperate Europe and America
  3. 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 (Epigæa 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.
  4. n. any of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Arbutus of temperate Europe and America