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arbutus

Any of a group of evergreen shrubs belonging to the heath family, found in temperate regions. The strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) is grown for its ornamental, strawberrylike fruit. (Genus Arbutus, family Ericaceae.)

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Town in Baltimore County, central Maryland,; population (1990) 19,800. It is situated to the southwest of the Baltimore city line. It is an older Baltimore suburb consisting of row and single-family houses and apartments, with some recent developments and several small industries. The University of Maryland's Baltimore County campus (1963) is to the west.



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But grass was growing green in sheltered spots and Gilbert had found some pale, sweet arbutus in a hidden corner.
Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
With the exception of a few berries, chiefly of a dwarf arbutus, the natives eat no vegetable food besides this fungus.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
The trees, with their different kinds of foliage, rise up straight and tall, fantastically colored by patches of lichen, forming magnificent colonnades, with a line of straggling hedgerow of guelder rose, briar rose, box and arbutus above and below the roadway at their feet.
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