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 Trail·ing, a. & vb. n. from Trail.
 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.
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 Ar·bu·tus Ar·bute n.  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 (Epigæa 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.
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 trailing arbutus
      n : low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with
          leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white
          flowers [syn: mayflower, Epigaea repens]