Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The round, hard-shelled nut or the edible white kernel of either of two evergreen trees (Macadamia integrifolia or M. tetraphylla) native to Australia and widely cultivated in Hawaii.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The hard-shelled nut of the
Macadamia ternifolia , or the delicious edible nut without its shell; large quantities are produced in Hawaii and sold commercially.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
hard -shelled edible seed of the macadamia tree
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun nutlike seed with sweet and crisp white meat
- noun small Australian tree with racemes of pink flowers; widely cultivated (especially in Hawaii) for its sweet edible nuts
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin Macadamia, genus name, after John Macadam, (1827–1865), Scottish-born Australian chemist.]
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