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noun

manzanita n. (Bot.) A name given to several species of Arctostaphylos, but mostly to Arctostaphylos glauca and Arctostaphylos pungens, shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., with reddish smooth bark, ovate or oval coriaceous evergreen leaves, and bearing clusters of red berries, which are said to be a favorite food of the grizzly bear.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Manzanita" Quotes from Famous Books

... stopped him; this was merely the opening of the game. Three days later he spent the night in the kitchen garden and cropped the tips of the newly planted orchard. After that the two of them put in nearly the whole of the growing season dodging one another through the close twigged manzanita, lilac, laurel and mahogany that broke upward along the shining bouldered coasts of San Jacinto. the chaparral at this season took all the changes of the incoming surf, blue in the shadows, darkling green about the heads of the gulches, or riffling with the ...

— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy

... Manzanita stood out, sharp and unsightly, in the keen February sunlight. A mile away in a dip of the desert, lay the town, a sorry sprawl of frame buildings, patternless save for the one main street, which promptly lost itself at either end in ...

— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

Words linked to "Manzanita" : Parry manzanita, heartleaf manzanita, shrub, madrona, Arctostaphylos tomentosa, arbutus, madrono, Arctostaphylos andersonii