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madroño

madroño is the alternative form of madrone.

Meaning of madrone

Noun

madrone (plural madrones or madrone)

  1. A strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo).
  2. (US) Any of three local relatives
    • Dig a big pit in a dirt alley road / Fill it with madrone and bay / Stinks like hell and the neighbours complain / Don't give a hoot what they say.1993, Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan, Filipino Box Spring Hog
  3. (US) A Pacific madrone (Arbutus menziesii)
  4. (US) A Arizona madrone (Arbutus arizonica)
  5. (US) A Texas madrone (Arbutus xalapensis)

Forms of madroño

pluralmadroños
pluralmadroño

Origin of madroño

Borrowed from Spanish madroño.

Questions about madroño

What is madroño the alternative form of?
Madroño is the alternative form of madrone.

Words near madroño in the dictionary

  1. madrones
  2. madrono
  3. madronos
  4. madroña
  5. madroñas
  6. madroño
  7. madroños
  8. Madruga
  9. Madrugas
  10. Madry
  11. Madrys

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: madroño (page history and authors); madrone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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