arbutus

See also: Arbutus

English
fruit of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)
Trailing arbutus

Wikispecies

Etymology

From New Latin Arbutus (genus name), from Latin arbutus.

Noun

arbutus (plural arbutuses)

  1. A flowering plant in the genus Arbutus: the strawberry tree.
    • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 10
      Many nights,though autumnal mists were spread around, I pssed under an ilex - many times I have supped on arbutus berries and chestnuts, making a fire, gypsylike, on the ground [...]
  2. Epigaea repens, the mayflower, the trailing arbutus.
  3. Arbute; the wood of the strawberry tree.

Translations
strawberry tree — see strawberry tree

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Related to arbor.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈar.bu.tus/, [ˈar.bʊ.tʊs]

Noun

arbutus m (genitive arbutī); second declension

  1. (botany) The strawberry tree.

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative arbutus arbutī
Genitive arbutī arbutōrum
Dative arbutō arbutīs
Accusative arbutum arbutōs
Ablative arbutō arbutīs
Vocative arbute arbutī

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  • arbutus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • arbutus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • arbutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • arbutus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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