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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

... the top of the world. * * * Beyond the gateway a lush level canyon into which you plunged as into a bath; then again the laboring trail, up and always up toward the blue California sky, out of the lilacs, and laurels, and redwood chaparral into the manzanita, the Spanish bayonet, the creamy yucca, and the fine angular shale of the upper regions. Beyond the apparent summit you found always other summits yet to be climbed, and all at once, like thrusting your shoulders out of a hatchway, you looked ...

— The California Birthday Book • Various

... the bushes were "manzanita." The roots and lower stems of this shrub are bright red, and twisted almost into knots. They make capital firewood; so Mr. Connor had them all piled up in a pile to keep to burn in his big fireplaces; and you would have laughed to see such a woodpile. ...

— The Hunter Cats of Connorloa • Helen Jackson

Words linked to "Manzanita" : Arctostaphylos, heartleaf manzanita, Arctostaphylos manzanita, Arctostaphylos tomentosa, madrona, arbutus, genus Arctostaphylos, shrub