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GENUS MACADAMIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Trees or shrubs; Madagascar to Australia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Macadamia" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "genus Macadamia"):
macadamia; macadamia tree (any tree of the genus Macadamia)
Macadamia integrifolia (medium-sized tree of eastern Australia having creamy-white flowers)
macadamia nut; macadamia nut tree; Macadamia ternifolia (small Australian tree with racemes of pink flowers; widely cultivated (especially in Hawaii) for its sweet edible nuts)
Macadamia tetraphylla; Queensland nut (bushy tree with pink to purple flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Macadamia" is a member of...):
family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)
