MACADAMIA

Macadamia

Macadamia is a genus of four species of trees constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae, indigenous to Australia. They grow naturally in north eastern New South Wales and south eastern Queensland, Australia. Previously more species, with disjunct distributions, were named as members of this genus Macadamia. Morphological studies and more recently genetics studies published in 2008 by Austin Mast and colleagues, show they have separated from this genus Macadamia, correlating less closely than thought from earlier morphological studies. The species previously named in this Macadamia genus, may still be referred to overall ...

The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Macadamia
and as such is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

macadamia

Noun

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


The above text is a snippet from Wiktionary: macadamia
and as such is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

Need help with a clue?
Try your search in the crossword dictionary!