MANZANITA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manzanita mean? 

• MANZANITA (noun)
  The noun MANZANITA has 2 senses:

1. chiefly evergreen shrubs of warm dry areas of western North America

2. 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

  Familiarity information: MANZANITA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANZANITA (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arbutus menziesii; madrona; madrono; manzanita

Hypernyms ("manzanita" is a kind of...):

arbutus (any of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Arbutus of temperate Europe and America)

 Context examples 

"Wolf! Wolf! Here Wolf!" she called, as they left the clearing and took the trail that led down through the waxen-belled manzanita jungle to the county road.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)