Found 3 hits - Term: trailing arbutus, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
trailing \trail"ing\,
a. vb. n. from trail.
1913 webster
trailing arbutus. bot. see under arbutus.
trailing spring, a spring fixed in the axle box of the
trailing wheels of a locomotive engine, and so placed as
to assist in deadening any shock which may occur. --weale.
trailing wheel, a hind wheel of a locomotive when it is not
a driving wheel; also, one of the hind wheels of a
carriage.
1913 webster
see also:
trail trailing arbutus arbutus trailing spring trailing wheel
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
arbutus \ar"butus\, 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.
1913 webster
trailing arbutus bot., a creeping or trailing plant of
the heath family epigaea 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.
1913 webster
see also:
trailing arbutus epigaea repens mayflower ground laurel
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
trailing arbutus
n : low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern north america with
leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white
flowers syn: mayflower, epigaea repens
see also:
mayflower epigaea repens
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