arbutus
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.10 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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 […]"
- "Ah, who is he,—on whom young men and maidens look with pitying eye? to whom the old man lifts his hat, and little children cease from their sports as he passes, and quietly slip the innocent daisy, or the sweet-scented arbutus into his hand, which they have culled from the wide commons, where, they have been told, the good Sea-flower loved to stray."
Etymology
From taxonomic name Arbutus, from Latin arbutus.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Arbutus