macadamianut

mac·a·da·mi·a nut (măk'ə-dāʹmē-ə) n.

The round, hard-shelled nut or the edible seed of the Australian tree Macadamia ternifolia, now cultivated in Hawaii.

  [New Latin Macadamia, genus name, after John Macadam (1827-1865), Scottish-born Australian chemist.]

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