Mayflower : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Mayflower	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Mayflower
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Mayflower n the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620 low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers Synonym(s): trailing arbutus, mayflower, Epigaea repens
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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[91]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mayflower \May"flow`er\, n. (Bot.) In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus (see {Arbutus}); also, the blossom of these plants.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
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