madrone

/muh-droh-nuh/US // məˈdroʊ nə //

疯人院,疯子,疯狗,疯牛症

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
- : the pale reddish-brown wood of this tree.

Gaunt pines clothed its rocky slope, intermingled with clumps of chaparral and the glossy-leaved madrone bushes.
In front was a precipitous cliff studded with dwarf madrone trees and the twisted manzanita.
The madrone, richly leaved like the laurel, reflects the sunlight from a bole glistening as though freshly carved from wet gold.
She had said that "Anne wath mad wiv her, and that Alix--" she managed to lisp the name, "wath up in the madrone!"
The wood of the madrone is hard and close-grained, of a light brown, shaded with red, with lighter-colored sap-wood.