Manita

Quick meaning: Manita is a noun meaning (rare) The tree Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, or the red, hand-like flower this tree produces.

Meaning

(rare) The tree Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, or the red, hand-like flower this tree produces.

Example Sentences

The curious manita, or ‘hand tree,’ near the city of Mexico, is another of these curiosities.

Tradition states, that though the Indians did not actually worship the manita tree, yet they regarded the flower with a sort of religious veneration.

Here one finds among remedies for every organ and ailment, manita, whose red flower, shaped like thumb and four fingers gives its name “the little hand.”

[…] The manita tree,* so named from the singular formation of its flower, a drawing of which is placed as the frontispiece of this book, is a species of plant almost unknown in the catalogues of botanists. Manita means a little hand.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for manita

Depending on context, synonyms include handflower, macpalxochitl.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include handflower, handplant, manicole, macpalxochitl, manoao, manchineel.

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