macadamia

Pronunciation: /mækəˈdeɪmi.ə/

The English word “macadamia” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

An evergreen tree, of the genus Macadamia, native to Australia and cultivated in Hawaii.
The fruit of this tree; the macadamia nut.

Etymology

From the genus name Macadamia, coined by the German-Australian botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1857, in honor of John Macadam, whose surname is an alternative spelling of MacAdam, from Scottish Gaelic Mac Àdhaimh (“Adam's son”). By surface analysis, Mac- + Adam + -ia.

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