n. A tropical American tree (Hippomane mancinella) having poisonous fruit and a milky sap that causes skin blisters on contact. [French mancenille, from Spanish manzanillo, a kind of olive tree bearing fine small olives, manchineel, from manzanilla, fine small olive, fruit of the manchineel, from diminutive of manzana, apple, from Old Spanish mançana; see MANZANILLA.] |
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