Adjacent Words

Mayflower definitions

	Tweet

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

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

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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