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Madrono   Listen
noun
madrono, madrona  n.  (Written also madroño)  (Bot.) A small evergreen tree or shrub (Arbutus Menziesii), of Pacific North America, having a smooth bark, thick glossy leathery leaves, and edible orange-red berries, which are often called madroña apples; the wood is used for furniture and the bark for tanning.
Synonyms: madrona, manzanita, Arbutus menziesii.






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"Madrono" Quotes from Famous Books



... cluster of oaks at its base. The next two days they traveled down the canada, coasting the estero, which they could not see for the low hills (lomeria) on their left, noting the pleasant land with its groves of oak, redwood (palo colorado), and madrono. They saw the tracks of many deer and also of bears. The Indians met them with friendly offers of black tamales and atole, which were gladly received by the half-starved Spaniards. They begged the strangers to go to their rancherias, but the governor ...
— The March of Portola • Zoeth S. Eldredge

... covered with scrub-oak and chaparral and madrono trees, and the stumps where redwoods had been, dropped sharply to the little river, which came tumbling down from the wooded mountains to plunge roaring into one end of the big power-house, and which foamed ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris



Words linked to "Madrono" :   madrona, manzanita, arbutus



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