Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Mayflower"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Arbutus \Ar"bu*tus\, Arbute \Ar"bute\, n. [L. arbutus, akin to
arbor tree.]
The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the
Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the
strawberry; the arbute tree.
{Trailing arbutus} (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of
the Heath family ({Epig[ae]a 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}. --Gray.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mayflower \May"flow`er\, n. (Bot.)
In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing
arbutus (see {Arbutus}); also, the blossom of these plants.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Mayflower
n 1: the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from England to
Massachusetts in 1620 [syn: {Mayflower}]
2: low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with
leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white
flowers [syn: {trailing arbutus}, {Epigaea repens}]
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