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Definition of Manzanitas
1. manzanita [n] - See also: manzanita
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manzanitas
Literary usage of Manzanitas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1897)
"Of these manzanitas, there are at least four forms that appear quite different from
... If the manzanitas in other sections of California present as many ..."
2. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera, Jerome Beers Thomas (1901)
"manzanitas, Sp.-Fil.; Jujube Fruit, Eng. USES.—The small fruit known commonly as
manzanitas has an agreeable taste, although ordinarily offered for sale ..."
3. Pigments of Flowering Plants by Nellie Antoinette Wakeman (1913)
"It might also account for the remarkable colorations of the Madrones and manzanitas
so well known upon the Pacific coast, since both are species of Arbutus ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"... Julia HS manzanitas; poem. Overland ns 68:224 S 46 Bühler, ME At a postage-stamp
show; poem. St N 43:452 Mr 46 Stirring of the nest; poem. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"Plants with tart fruit imparting a pleasant acidulous taste to water : Several
species of Sumach on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the manzanitas ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"... and a revision of the manzanitas of Mt. Tamalpais, in which, because of the
inadequacy of printed descriptions and other difficulties, three forms that ..."
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