Home › Words › A › arbutusarbutusarbutus means A strawberry tree, any of the flowering plants in the genus Arbutus.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, arbutus ranks #26,132 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom taxonomic name Arbutus, from Latin arbutus.nounA strawberry tree, any of the flowering plants in the genus Arbutus.e.g.“Many nights, though autumnal mists were spread around, I passed under an ilex - many times I have supped on arbutus berries and chestnuts, making a fire, gypsy-like, on the ground […]” — 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:A mayflower or trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens).Arbute; wood of strawberry trees.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.arbute 75% match — The strawberry tree. vs arbutus →arbutean 69% match — Made from arbute, the wood of the strawberry tree. vs arbutus →arbutoid 68% match — Characteristic of the Arbutus genus; applied to a kind of mycorrhiza where the fungal hyphae form sheaths around the root tips. vs arbutus →arboret 67% match — A small tree or shrub. vs arbutus →arum 67% match — A flower or plant in the genus Arum vs arbutus →bearberry 66% match — Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries. vs arbutus →sorbus 63% match — Any plant of the genus Sorbus. vs arbutus →asarum 63% match — Any plant of the genus Asarum. vs arbutus →