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manita

/məˈniːtə/

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Borrowed from Spanish manita (“little hand”), feminine-form diminutive of mano (“hand”), because the small red flowers of the tree resemble five-fingered human hands.

noun manitas

rare The tree Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, or the red, hand-like flower this tree produces. […] 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.
Similar: Devil's hand tree, devil's hand tree, Mexican hand tree, handflower, handflower tree, macpalxochitl

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@misc{manita_2026,
  title = {manita},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/manita},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}