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Word entry · 9 letters

macadamia

Best crossword clue

"Edible nut"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /mækəˈdeɪmi.ə/Part of speech nounSorted aaaacdimmStarts with MEnds with A2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. any tree of the genus Macadamia

Word origin

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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