What is "madrone"

Usage examples of "madrone".

The reddish madrone wood of the eight-sided box made Phil think of a stop sign.

So as to properly weight the trial vehicle, Randy alla-made a mannequin of -- why not polished madrone wood?

He had barely passed the turnoff toward Madrone when the vibration shuddered through his rental car.

Since the smoke still rose north of Madrone, he turned in toward the town.

Chapter 6 The money-raiser for the Boniface family was held in Madrone on Saturday night.

Cars were lined up at the Madrone turnoff, their left-turn blinker lights signaling intent to go east up the mountain.

Her first reply was drowned out by the lugging of the pickup truck that had tailgated Luke since the Madrone turn.

Place in the middle of Madrone, Luke heard the whine of a siren on the highway road.

A lot was going on in the area around Madrone, Your Honor, fires that suggested arson, bombed cars, a great deal of civil unrest.

At one edge of the base, pressed between the fenceline and the sea, shimmered the pale archways and columns, the madrone and wind-shaped cypresses of the clifftop campus of College of the Surf.

Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells.

He threaded among willows and sycamores and wild blackberry vines in the riverbed, patted the trunks of live oak and scrub oak, madrone, laurel, toyon.

I first opened my eyes and I could see the sun climbing through the middle branches of the ancient madrone under which we had parked.

I saw that morning: redwood, oak and madrone standing brilliantly outlined against a deep blue sky, meadows and grasslands teaming with field mice and other rodents, redtailed hawks circling overhead.

After a long conversation with both parties, the mother of all RADAR Rangers leaned dejectedly against a madrone whose gnarled roots pushed up through the trail at her feet.