Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A handsome tree, Arbutus Menziesii, of western North America, toward the south becoming a shrub.
  • noun The name was originally applied to the strawberry-tree, Arbutus Unedo, which is so called in Spaiu. It was transferred to its cougener, A. Menziesii, of the American Pacific Coast. It is now also applied to A. Xalapensis and A. Arizonica, of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

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  • noun The strawberry tree.

Etymologies

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From Mexican Spanish madroño, of uncertain origin.

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