|
|
Definition of Trailing arbutus
1. Noun. Low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trailing Arbutus
Literary usage of Trailing arbutus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons, Marion Satterlee (1900)
"Pink, small and punctual, Aromatic, low," describes, but does scant justice to
the trailing arbutus, whose waxy blossoms and delicious breath are among the ..."
2. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"THE trailing arbutus I WANDERED lonely where the pine-trees made Against the
bitter East their barricade, And, guided by its sweet Perfume, ..."
3. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons (1895)
"Pink, small, and punctual, Aromatic, low," describes, but does scant justice to
the trailing arbutus, whose waxy blossoms and delicious breath are among the ..."
4. The token and Atlantic souvenir: a Christmas and New Year's present by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1838)
"... THE trailing arbutus.* THERE 's a flower that grows by the greenwood tree, In
its desolate beauty more dear to me Than all that are glancing by fountain ..."
5. The Complete Poetical Works of Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier (1894)
"... delight of seeking good I " THE trailing arbutus I WANDERED lonely where the
pine-trees And, guided by its sweet Perfume, I found, within a narrow dell, ..."
Other Resources:
