'Trailing arbutus' definitions:
Definition of 'trailing arbutus'
From: WordNet
noun
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]
Definition of 'Trailing arbutus'
From: GCIDE
- Trailing \Trail"ing\, a. & vb. n. from Trail. [1913 Webster]
- Trailing arbutus. (Bot.) See under Arbutus.
- Trailing spring, a spring fixed in the axle box of the trailing wheels of a locomotive engine, and so placed as to assist in deadening any shock which may occur. --Weale.
- Trailing wheel, a hind wheel of a locomotive when it is not a driving wheel; also, one of the hind wheels of a carriage. [1913 Webster]