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macadamia

ma·ca·da·mia

US/mækəˈdeɪmi.ə/ rare

noun

1.

any tree of the genus Macadamia

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”).

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