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Example sentences for "manchineel"

Lexicographically close words:
mancher; manches; manchet; manchets; manchild; manchmal; mancipation; mancipia; mancipio; mancipium
  1. In one of my excursions at this place I found a large manchineel tree.

  2. We cut a path through an immense large forest, which boasted some noble-looking cotton, manchineel and iron trees, and a red tree something resembling the bastard mahogany.

  3. Those are manchineel apples; with their milky juice the old Caribs were wont to poison the barbs of their parrot-feathered arrows.

  4. You went to sleep under the shade of some poison-trees, manchineel trees, we call them here," the doctor explained.

  5. Lord Nelson, when a young man here in Barbados, was made very ill by drinking from a pool into which some branches of the manchineel had been thrown.

  6. He tried in the same manner the physalis pelagica of Lamark, which contains an acrid and caustic fluid; but the fish invariably refused it, nor would they touch fragments of the manchineel apple.

  7. The reference to Manchineel is explained by a passage in Coleridge's dedication of his 1797 volume, then just published, to his brother, the Rev.


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