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- noun Plural form of
madrono .
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Examples
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Saxon stood under the father of all madronos, watching Hazel and
CHAPTER XXI 2010
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It seemed as if all local varieties of trees and vines had conspired to weave the leafy roof -- maples, big madronos and laurels, and lofty tan-bark oaks, scaled and wrapped and interwound with wild grape and flaming poison oak.
CHAPTER XXII 2010
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On the crest he came through an amazing thicket of velvet-trunked young madronos, and emerged on an open hillside that led down into a tiny valley.
Chapter VIII 2010
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Billy pointed to the father of all madronos, six feet in diameter at its base, sturdy and sound, which stood before the house.
CHAPTER XVII 2010
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More leaping tree squirrels, more ruddy madronos and majestic oaks, more fairy circles of redwoods, and, still beside the singing stream, they passed a gate by the roadside.
CHAPTER XVII 2010
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Again we climbed a ridge, this time riding under red-limbed madronos and manzanitas of deeper red.
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Their tops were crowned with century-old spruce trees, and their sides clothed with oaks and madronos and native holly.
Chapter VIII 2010
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They cleared the crest and emerged from the pool as if into another world, for now they were in the thicket of velvet-trunked young madronos and looking down the open, sun-washed hillside, across the nodding grasses, to the drifts of blue and white nemophilae that carpeted the tiny meadow on either side the tiny stream.
Chapter XXIV 2010
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The acres were fairly covered with a second growth of redwood and a wealth of madronos and other native trees; but there were many spaces where Nature invited assistance, and my friend every year has planted trees of many kinds from many climes, until he has an arboretum hardly equaled anywhere.
A Backward Glance at Eighty Murdock, Charles A 1921
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They continued on till the crunch of the rock-crusher died away, penetrated a belt of woodland, crossed a tiny divide where the afternoon sunshine was wine-colored by the manzanita and rose-colored by madronos, and dipped down through a young planting of eucalyptus to the Little Meadow.
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