manzanita

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun chiefly evergreen shrubs of warm dry areas of western North America
noun 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

Borrowed from Spanish manzanita, so named because the fruits look like little apples.

The gap in the rim rock widened to a slope thickly grown over with cedars and pinyons and manzanita. — The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories, Unknown
Our pine forest was well scorched, the dead trees all burned up, and our broad acres of manzanita swept away. — Roughing It, Mark Twain
It is seen from a foreground of gliding river, cottonwood groves, and talus slopes dotted with manzanita, sage, cedars, and blooming cactus. — The Book of the National Parks, Robert Sterling Yard

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