Definitions for madrones

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madrones ma·dro·ne

Spelling: [muh-droh-nuh]

IPA: /məˈdroʊ nə/

Madrones is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 584 anagrams from letters in madrones (ademnors).

Definitions for madrones

noun

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

Origin of madrones

1835-45, Americanism; American Spanish madroño; Spanish: strawberry tree (ulterior origin uncertain)

Examples for madrones

The madrone, richly leaved like the laurel, reflects the sunlight from a bole glistening as though freshly carved from wet gold.

I will exchange some madrone berries, a piece of manzanita wood and bark, and a few sugar-pine nuts, for ocean curiosities.

The wood of the madrone is hard and close-grained, of a light brown, shaded with red, with lighter-colored sap-wood.

She had said that "Anne wath mad wiv her, and that Alix--" she managed to lisp the name, "wath up in the madrone!"