manchineel

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Emerging from the shadow of the manchineel-trees, you may follow the road up, up, up, under beetling cliffs of plutonian rock that seem about to topple down upon the path-way.

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  1. noun A tropical American tree (Hippomane mancinella) having poisonous fruit and a milky sap that causes skin blisters on contact.

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  • In the last act, as the vessel sails away bearing Vasco and Inez back to Portugal, Selika throws herself down under the poisonous manchineel-tree and kills herself with its fatal flowers; expiring in the arms of Nelusko, who shares the same fate The first act opens with a very sweet but sombre ballad sung by Inez ("Del Tago sponde addio"), which recalls the English song, "Isle of Beauty, fare thee well," and is followed by a bold and flowing terzetto. —  The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
  • The salt ponds, sunken far below the level of the sea, from lack of rain, glittered white, but they were set with aloes and manchineel, and there were low and muddy flats to be avoided. —  The Conqueror
  • The Caribs used arrows poisoned with the juice of the manchineel, or pointed with formidable shark's-teeth, their clubs of Brazil-wood were three feet long, and their lances of hardened wood were thrown with great adroitness and to a great distance. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862
  • R who knew it was not manchineel, whispered to a bystander, 'Ce n'est pas vrai.' —  At Last
  • In the time of Pčre Dutertre it was believed these fish ate the apples of the manchineel-tree, washed into the sea by rains;--to-day it is popularly supposed that they are rendered occasionally poisonous by eating the barnacles attached to copper-plating of ships. —  Two Years in the French West Indies
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  1. French mancenille, from Spanish manzanilla, diminutive of manzana, apple, from Old Spanish, from Latin (māla) Matiāna, (apples) of Matius, possibly after Caius Matius Calvena (fl. first century B.C.), Roman author of a cookbook.

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  1. from French mancenille, manzanille = Italian mancinello (New Latin mancinella), from Spanish manzanillo, manchineel (cf. manzanilla, camomile), from manzana, an apple, prob. from Latin Mantiana, sc. mala, a kind of apples, neuter plural of Matianus, pertaining to a Matius, from Matius, the name of a Roman gens.
 

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