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‖ madroño|maˈdroɲo|
Also madrona, madrone.
[Sp.]
A handsome evergreen tree of western North America, Arbutus Menziesii, having a very hard wood and bearing yellow berries. Also attrib.
1850B. Taylor Eldorado xiii. (1862) 130 Clumps of the madrono—a native evergreen,..filled the ravines. 1882J. Hawthorne Fort. Fool i. xxvi, The whisper of the breeze in the madroño. 1883Stevenson Silverado Sq. 71 Woods of oak and madrona, dotted with enormous pines. 1888Amer. Humor. 5 May 12/1 Here and there a madrona tree grows, with its bark peeling off in its own peculiar way, leaving the tree bright red and as smooth as satin.
Comb.1900R. Kipling From Sea to Sea xxvi, There were the pines and the madrone-clad hills. |