Trailing arbutus Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers
    Epigaea repens; mayflower.

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  1. . (Bot.) See under Arbutus.
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913