It was a low, brown cottage, planted close against the hill, and overhung by the foliage and peeling boughs of a madrona thicket.
The wood of the Madrona has little or no place in construction, but its charcoal is used in the manufacture of gunpowder.
There is nothing in the climate to forbid their staying all the time but I am inclined to think that their abundance in winter depends upon the berry crop, and especially that of the Madrona (Arbutus menziesii).
One of the most extensive uses for the wood of madrona is for charcoal burning.
When madrona grows in the open it throws out wide limbs like a southern live oak, though not so large or long.
The last is the proper name of another small tree which is associated with madrona and is closely related to it.
The madrona is seen in all its glory in northwestern California, where it catches some of the warmth and the moist air from the Pacific.
Sudworth, dendrologist of the United States Forest Service, who usually describes in strictly prosaic terms, breaks away from that habit long enough to compare madrona flowers to lilies of the valley, in his "Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope.
Fortunately this madrona tree is of a hard and unyielding nature, and with all her strength she could neither break nor bend it.
Then she came back and again clawed a while at the screaming man up the madrona tree.
Here he camped on the bank of a small stream in a madrona thicket and began to hunt for his bear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "madrona" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
