madrone
Americannoun
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any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii Pacific madrone of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
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the pale reddish-brown wood of this tree.
Etymology
Origin of madrone
An Americanism dating back to 1835–45; from Latin American Spanish (Panama, Colombia), Spanish madroño “strawberry tree,” Mozarabic maṭroño; further origin uncertain
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Cedar, fir, madrone trees, scabbed with muscles, kelp, barnacles.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2023
My neighborhood is bounded by a green belt of dying madrone and big leaf maple trees, many that were planted decades ago and are now at the end of their life cycle.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2022
With bandannas over their faces and 10 chain saws, they battled through the forest of oak, madrone and Douglas fir.
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2020
We gazed through a window at the tops of oak and madrone trees growing on the slope.
From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019
Every fifty yards there was another card sticking on a bush, or hanging from the branches of a madrone, or tacked to the trunk of a buckeye, and all of them said, “Welcome Home.”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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