Crossword-Solution: ARBUTUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Arbutus | n. | Alt. of Arbute |
We have 16 clues for the answer “ARBUTUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Trailing, flowering plant. | 1 answer |
| Tree with berrylike fruit | 1 answer |
| strawberry-tree | 1 answer |
| MASSACHUSETTS State flower | 2 answers |
| Early spring bloomer | 3 answers |
| MAYFLOWER? | 4 answers |
| Trailing plant | 11 answers |
| Evergreen shrub | 18 answers |
| NORTH American shrub/tree | 21 answers |
| EUROPEAN shrub/tree | 24 answers |
| North American plant | 25 answers |
| American plant | 38 answers |
| EVERGREEN plant | 43 answers |
| AMERICAN shrub/tree | 47 answers |
| European plant | 51 answers |
| ASIAN plant | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ARBUTUS (5)
But the rough arbutus with walnut-fruit Is grafted; so have barren planes ere now Stout apples borne, with chestnut-flower the beech, The mountain-ash with pear-bloom whitened o'er, And swine crunched acorns 'neath the boughs of elms.
Nothing remained on the place of his lodge-fire but the miskodeed,{footnote [The trailing arbutus.]} a small white flower, with a pink border, which is one of the earliest species of northern plants.
Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epig‘a repens), having white or usually roseÐcolored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; Ð called also ground laurel.
The tall blooms through which the lovers walked still slept in the chilly earth; but the sky above her was mild and blue, and the remembrance of the day came back to her with a delicate, pungent sweetness, like the perfume of the trailing arbutus in the air around her.
The most striking of these to the traveler is the Menzies arbutus, or madrona, as it is popularly called in California.
Quotes with ARBUTUS (2)
The arbutus is now open everywhere in the woods and groves. How pleasant it is to meet the same flowers year after year! If the blossoms were liable to change — if they were to become capricious and irregular — they might excite more surprise, more curiosity, but we should love them less; they might be just as bright, and gay, and fragrant under other forms, but they would not be the violets, and squirrel-cups, and ground laurels we loved last year. Whatever your roving fanci…
My grandmother’s parents had thought she was too good for my grandfather. They were Irish, shipworkers who had gotten the hell out of Locust Point and moved uptown, to Charles Village, where the houses were much bigger. They looked down on my grandfather just because he was where they once were. It killed them, the idea that their precious youngest daughter might move back to the neighborhood and live with an Italian, to boot. Everybody’s got to look down on somebody. If ther…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1967–2009).