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macadamia

US/mækəˈdeɪmi.ə/

macadamia noun: an evergreen tree, of the genus Macadamia, native to Australia and cultivated in Hawaii.

macadamia: an evergreen tree, of the genus Macadamia, native to Australia and cultivated in Hawaii
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Noun

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.
    • 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.2023 February 5, Kathryn Parsons, “Boom times are back in San Francisco’s tech mecca”, in The Sunday Times, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2026
    Synonyms:
    bauple

macadamia meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Malay and Vietnamese

macadamia in Tamil

இது பழவகைகளுள் ஒன்றாகும்

macadamia in Arabic

tree
مَاكَادَامِيَا mākādāmiyā, مَكَادَامِيَا makādāmiyā

macadamia in Malay

tree
kacang loceng

macadamia in Vietnamese

tree
mắc ca

Synonyms of macadamia

  • bauple

Forms of macadamia

pluralmacadamias

Origin of 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”). By surface analysis, Mac- + Adam + -ia.

Phrases with macadamia

Words that rhyme with macadamia

Questions about macadamia

What does macadamia mean?
Macadamia means an evergreen tree, of the genus Macadamia, native to Australia and cultivated in Hawaii.
What is macadamia in Tamil?
Macadamia in Tamil is இது பழவகைகளுள் ஒன்றாகும். See Macadamia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is macadamia?
Macadamia is a noun.
How do you pronounce macadamia?
Macadamia is pronounced /mækəˈdeɪmi.ə/ (US).
What is the plural of macadamia?
The plural of macadamia is macadamias.

Words near macadamia in the dictionary

  1. macaco
  2. macacoes
  3. macacos
  4. macadam
  5. macadamed
  6. macadamia
  7. macadamia nut
  8. macadamia nuts
  9. macadamias
  10. macadaming
  11. macadamisation

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: macadamia (page history and authors); macadamia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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