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Definition of Genus Arbutus
1. Noun. Large evergreen shrubs and trees of southern Europe and western North America: strawberry tree; madrona.
Group relationships: Ericaceae, Family Ericaceae, Heath Family
Member holonyms: Arbutus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Arbutus
Literary usage of Genus Arbutus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... and also a species referred to the existing genus Arbutus. The Rhododendrons,
which some writers make the type of a distinct family, are represented by ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Handsome evergreen shrubs, though generally with less conspicuous fls. and frs.
than those of the allied genus Arbutus. Some Cent. ..."
3. A Manual of Palæontology, for the Use of Students: For the Use of Students by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... and also a species referred to the existing genus Arbutus. The Rhododendrons,
which some writers make the type of a distinct family, are represented by ..."
4. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"The attractive trees of the genus Arbutus have species in world of which 9 are
native to Mexico (González and González 1992). ..."
5. Our Trees, how to Know Them by Clarence Moores Weed (1918)
"... belonging to the genus Arbutus, which occur in the far Western States, and a
single tree-like form of the Cranberry group—the Sparkleberry belonging to ..."
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