Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The round, hard-shelled nut or the edible seed of the Australian tree Macadamia ternifolia, now cultivated in Hawaii.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. nutlike seed with sweet and crisp white meat
- n. small Australian tree with racemes of pink flowers; widely cultivated (especially in Hawaii) for its sweet edible nuts
Etymologies
- New Latin Macadamia, genus name, after John Macadam (1827-1865), Scottish-born Australian chemist. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘macadamia nut’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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Mahalo Hawaiʻi
The triggerfish humuhumunukunukuapuaa belongs on this list too.
wahine, Diamond Head, Kilauea, D. Haw., Aiea, kapa, wauke, mamaki, kukui, kolokolo, koko, ilima and 123 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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SCIE - noun-noun collocations
The collocations below consist of nouns only. Noun-noun collocations are extremely frequent in science (just think of the names of species, chemical compounds or "scientist+invention" type collocat...
dust bowl, walking stick, rain forest, cherry tree, sugar maple, asteroid belt, boll weevil, weather forecast, sulphur dioxide, lake trout, heart rate, rainbow trout and 480 more...
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Just for John. Including retired flavors--or, as B & J's calls them, the Flavor Graveyard. :-)
Updated 9/2011.banana split, berried treasure, berry berry extra..., black raspberry, brownie batter, butter pecan, cake batter, cherry garcia, chocolate, chocolate chip co..., chocolate fudge b..., chocolate macadamia and 341 more...
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nuts
peanut, hazelnut, cashew nut, macadamia nut, pine nut, pistachio nut, red pistachio nut, all natural white...
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