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mountain mahogany

noun

  1. any of several western North American shrubs or small trees of the genus Cercocarpus, of the rose family, having simple, leathery leaves and small, whitish flowers.


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Origin of mountain mahogany1

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10
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Oh, and a now-large toyon and mountain mahogany on either side to provide partial shade.

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By Day 4, we’ve dropped into the mountain mahogany, juniper and parched, treeless hillsides of the high desert.

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John Maley’s 28,000-acre ranch sits on the eastern edge of Steens Mountain Wilderness, a sprawling high desert in a remote corner of southeastern Oregon that’s thick in season with sagebrush, juniper and mountain mahogany.

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Work crews and volunteers also helped plant mountain mahogany seed and 2,000 sagebrush seedlings.

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Powerful gusts of wind ripped down from the canyon walls as Montgomery cast, rattling cones from the Douglas fir trees and stirring the sagebrush and curl-leaf mountain mahogany.

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