MANZANITA

• MANZANITA (noun)
  The noun MANZANITA has 2 senses:

1. chiefly evergreen shrubs of warm dry areas of western North America
2. evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning

  Familiarity information: MANZANITA used as a noun is rare.

• MANZANITA (noun)

Meaning:

Chiefly evergreen shrubs of warm dry areas of western North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("manzanita" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manzanita"):

Arctostaphylos andersonii; heartleaf manzanita (erect California shrub having leaves with heart-shaped lobes at the base)

Arctostaphylos manzanita; Parry manzanita (erect treelike shrub forming dense thickets and having drooping panicles of white or pink flowers and red berrylike drupes; California)

Arctostaphylos tomentosa; downy manzanita; woolly manzanita (erect openly branched California shrub whose twigs are woolly when young)

Holonyms ("manzanita" is a member of...):

Arctostaphylos; genus Arctostaphylos (bearberry; manzanita)

Meaning:

Evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arbutus menziesii; madrona; madrono; manzanita

Hypernyms ("manzanita" is a kind of...):

arbutus (any of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Arbutus of temperate Europe and America)