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Macadamia
Macadamia
Translingual
Proper noun
Macadamia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Proteaceae – the type genus of macadamia trees.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots - clades; Proteales - order; Proteaceae - family; Grevilleoideae - subfamily; Macadamieae - tribe; Macadamiinae - subtribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): See Macadamia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia for the species included in narrower circumscriptions of the genus and Macadamia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies for additional species that have been included.
macadamia
macadamia
English
Noun
macadamia (countable and uncountable, plural macadamias)
- An evergreen tree, of the genus Macadamia, native to Australia and cultivated in Hawaii.
- The fruit of this tree; the macadamia nut.
Translations
tree
macadamia nut — see macadamia nut