n. Any of several evergreen shrubs or small trees of the genus Arctostaphylos of the heath family, native to the Pacific coast of North America, especially A. manzanita, having white or pink flowers in drooping panicles and red berrylike fruit. [Spanish, diminutive of manzana, apple; see MANCHINEEL.] |
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