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• ARBUTUS (noun)
The noun ARBUTUS has 1 sense:

1. any of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Arbutus of temperate Europe and America

Familiarity information: ARBUTUS used as a noun is very rare.

• ARBUTUS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Arbutus of temperate Europe and America

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("arbutus" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arbutus"):

Arbutus menziesii; madrona; madrono; manzanita (evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning)

Arbutus unedo; Irish strawberry; strawberry tree (small evergreen European shrubby tree bearing many-seeded scarlet berries that are edible but bland; of Ireland, southern Europe, Asia Minor)

Holonyms ("arbutus" is a member of...):

genus Arbutus (large evergreen shrubs and trees of southern Europe and western North America: strawberry tree; madrona)

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