arbuten.
/ˈɑːbjuːt/ archaic or poetic.
= arbutus n. Also attributive.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > arbutus or strawberry tree
strawberry tree1548
arbute1551
arbutus1551
memerill1592
winter strawberry1708
madroño?1842
1551 W. Turner Herball (1568) 41 The fruite of the arbut tree.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 74 The thin-leav'd Arbute Hazle, graffs receives. View more context for this quotation
1846 H. W. Longfellow To a Child iii In falling, clutched the wild arbute.
1866 J. Conington tr. Virgil Æneid xi. 368 Weave..Of oaken branch and arbute spray A funeral bier.
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