macadamia

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”).^[1] By surface analysis, Mac- +‎ Adam +‎ -ia.

• (US) IPA^(key): /mækəˈdeɪmi.ə/, /mækəˈdeɪmjə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪmiə

macadamia (countable and uncountable, plural macadamias)

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

   Synonym: bauple

   • 2023 February 5, Kathryn Parsons, “Boom times are back in San Francisco’s tech mecca”, in The Sunday Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 April 2026:

     Coffee shops-cum-meeting-spots dotted across the city are teeming (Equator, Blue Bottle and Saint Frank). Caffeine-fuelled, lactose-intolerant, macadamia milk latte-drinking young folk are journalling, manifesting, coding, ChatGPT-ing and pitching their ideas.

Borrowed from translingual Macadamia.

• IPA^(key): /ma.kaˈda.mja/
• Rhymes: -amja
• Hyphenation: ma‧ca‧dà‧mia

macadamia f (plural macadamie)

1. any plant of the Macadamia taxonomic genus

macadamia (invariable)

1. (relational) only used in noce macadamia

• macadamia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• IPA^(key): /makaˈdamja/ [ma.kaˈð̞a.mja]
• Rhymes: -amja
• Syllabification: ma‧ca‧da‧mia

macadamia f (plural macadamias)

1. macadamia