NOUN | plant | manzanita | chiefly evergreen shrubs of warm dry areas of western North America |
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plant | manzanita, madrona, madrono, Arbutus menziesii | evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries |
Meaning | chiefly evergreen shrubs of warm dry areas of western North America. | |
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Member of | Arctostaphylos, genus Arctostaphylos | bearberry |
Narrower | Parry manzanita, Arctostaphylos manzanita | Erect treelike shrub forming dense thickets and having drooping panicles of white or pink flowers and red berrylike drupes |
downy manzanita, woolly manzanita, Arctostaphylos tomentosa | Erect openly branched California shrub whose twigs are woolly when young | |
heartleaf manzanita, Arctostaphylos andersonii | Erect California shrub having leaves with heart-shaped lobes at the base | |
Broader | shrub, bush | A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
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. | |
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Synonyms | madrona, madrono, Arbutus menziesii | |
Broader | arbutus | Any of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Arbutus of temperate Europe and America |
Spanish | madrona | |
Catalan | arbutus menziesii, madrona |
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