Amanita vs Manita - What's the difference?
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Any of very many agaric mushrooms, of the genus Amanita , most of which are very poisonous
(rare) The tree Chiranthodendron pentadactylon , or the red, hand-like flower this tree produces.
* 1828 , Mark Beaufoy, Mexican illustrations, founded upon facts , page 230:
* 1829 October 3, in the Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette , number 321, page 112:
* 1838 , John Murray, The economy of vegetation, or phœnomena of plants , page 159:
* circa 1846', ''Traveling Sketches'', from a work by Waddy Thompson, republished in the ''Rural Repository'' (' 1846 July 18), volume 22, number 23, page 181:
* 1852 , Victoria Alexandrina M.L. Gregory, A young traveller's journal of a tour in North and South America during the year 1850
* 1928 , Ernest Gruening, Mexico and its heritage , page 74:
* 2000 , Stephen Harrigan, The Gates of the Alamo: A Novel :
As nouns the difference between amanita and manita
is that amanita is any of very many agaric mushrooms, of the genus Amanita, most of which are very poisonous while manita is the tree Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, or the red, hand-like flower this tree produces.amanita
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(wikipedia manita) (Chiranthodendron pentadactylon)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- Tradition states, that though the Indians did not actually worship the manita tree, yet they regarded the flower with a sort of religious veneration.
- The curious manita , or ‘hand tree,’ near the city of Mexico, is another of these curiosities.
- with high walls on every side but open at the top and certainly not exceeding 80 feet square, and this is the botanic garden of the palace of Mexico; a few shrubs and plants and the celebrated manita tree, are all that it contains.
- Close by was a plant of the manita , a flower which the Aztecs used to worship ; it is in the form of a hand, with four fingers and a thumb : this they imagined to be the hand of one of their most powerful deities, and adored it ; its colour is a brilliant scarlet.
- 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.”
- A sign nailed to a manita tree read “Jardín Botánica.” Edmund surveyed this pathetic place in disbelief. The botanic garden of the Palace of Mexico was cramped, airless, light-starved, and populated with meager, untended specimens —
