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Manzanita

noun

Chiefly evergreen shrubs of warm dry areas of western North America.

Evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning. Synonyms: Arbutus menziesii, madrona, madrono.

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"Manzanita" Quotes from Famous Books

... dark pines where the ground was thickly carpeted with the dead, brown needles and the air was redolent with the odor of the majestic trees; or made their camps at night, feeding their blazing fires with the pitchy knots and cones. At other times, they found their way through thickets of manzanita and buckthorn, along the mountain's flank; or, winding zigzag down some narrow canyon wall, made themselves at home under the slender, small-trunked alders; and added to the stores that Croesus packed, many a lusty trout from the ...

— The Eyes of the World • Harold Bell Wright

... Coconina west of Silver Cup, and ran down to open wide on the flat desert. They contained plots of white sage and bunches of rich grass and cold springs. The steers that ranged these ravines were wild as wolves, and in the tangled thickets of juniper and manzanita and jumbles of weathered cliff they were exceedingly difficult ...

— The Heritage of the Desert • Zane Grey

... new. High rocks, whose rugged faces look as if their titanic architect had been surprised and driven away while as yet his task was not half completed; long gaping gulches lined with an evergreen decoration of spruce, cedar, manzanita, and mountain mahogany, are some of the sidelights to be found in a day's journey in the realms adjacent to the ...

— Trail Tales • James David Gillilan

Words linked to "Manzanita" : arbutus, Arctostaphylos andersonii, Arctostaphylos tomentosa, Arctostaphylos, genus Arctostaphylos, bush, shrub