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MANZANITA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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; manzanita
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("manzanita" is a kind of...):
arbutus (any of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Arbutus of temperate Europe and America)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Chiefly evergreen shrubs of warm dry areas of western North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("manzanita" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manzanita"):
Arctostaphylos andersonii; heartleaf manzanita (erect California shrub having leaves with heart-shaped lobes at the base)
Arctostaphylos manzanita; Parry manzanita (erect treelike shrub forming dense thickets and having drooping panicles of white or pink flowers and red berrylike drupes; California)
Arctostaphylos tomentosa; downy manzanita; woolly manzanita (erect openly branched California shrub whose twigs are woolly when young)
Holonyms ("manzanita" is a member of...):
Arctostaphylos; genus Arctostaphylos (bearberry; manzanita)
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