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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



... afterward known to Madrono Hollow that sharp words passed between "Miss Jo" and the old man, and that the latter coupled the names of one Culpepper Starbottle and his uncle, Colonel Starbottle, with certain uncomplimentary epithets, and that Miss Jo retaliated sharply. "Her father's blood before her father's face boiled ...
— Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories • Bret Harte



Words linked to "Madrono" :   Arbutus menziesii, madrona, manzanita



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