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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A genus of dicotyledonous apetalous plants belonging to the natural order Proteaceæ and the tribe Grevilleeæ, characterized by having two pendulous ovules, seeds with unequal and fleshy cotyledons, anthers on short filaments inserted a little below the laminæ, and a ring-like four-lobed or four-parted disk. There are two species, found only in eastern Australia. They are tall shrubs or trees with whorled leaves, either entire or serrate, and flowers pedicellate in pairs, in terminal or axillary racemes, the pedicels not connate. M. ternifolia is the Queensland nut-tree, a small tree with dense foliage, a firm, fine-grained wood, and an edible nut with the taste of hazel, an inch or more in diameter.

Wiktionary

  1. n. an evergreen tree, of the genus Macadamia, native to Australia and cultivated in Hawaii
  2. n. the fruit of this tree; the macadamia nut

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. any tree of the genus Macadamia, especially Macadamia ternifolia.
  2. n. A macadamia nut.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any tree of the genus Macadamia

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