From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Arbutus \Ar"bu*tus\, Arbute \Ar"bute\, noun [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) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: 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)
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Arbutus, MD -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Maryland Population (2000): 20116 Housing Units (2000): 8380 Land area (2000): 6.502061 sq. miles (16.840261 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.001829 sq. miles (0.004737 sq. km) Total area (2000): 6.503890 sq. miles (16.844998 sq. km) FIPS code: 01975 Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24 Location: 39.244406 N, 76.693928 W ZIP Codes (1990): Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Arbutus, MD Arbutus
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