Meanings
nounmanzanillo (plural manzanillos)
plural manzanillos
- A variety of Spanish olive.
The Manzanillo, or "little apple," olive had larger fruit and ripened earlier than the Mission, and produced both excellent oil and good table fruits.
2009, Susan Dolan, “Orchard Specialization and Industrialization, 1881-1945”, in Fruitful Legacy: A Historic Context of Orchards in the United States, with Technical Information for Registering Orchards in the National Register of Historic Places, →ISBN, page 106
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