8 definitions found for Mayflower

Mayflower n 1: the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620 2: low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers [syn: trailing arbutus, mayflower, Epigaea repens]

mayflower noun Date: 1594 any of various spring-blooming plants; especially arbutus 2

mayflower
n. any of various flowers that bloom in May, esp. the trailing arbutus, Epigaea repens.

mayflower n. any of various flowers that bloom in May, esp. the trailing arbutus, Epigaea repens.

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.

Mayflower May"flow`er, n. (Bot.) In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus (see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.

Mayflower, AR (city, FIPS 44750) Location: 34.97181 N, 92.41902 W Population (1990): 1415 (708 housing units) Area: 7.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72106

may-flower n. 1. [Eng.] Hawthorn, white thorn. 2. [New Eng.] Trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens).