GENUS MACADAMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Macadamia mean? 

• GENUS MACADAMIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS MACADAMIA has 1 sense:

1. trees or shrubs; Madagascar to Australia

  Familiarity information: GENUS MACADAMIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS MACADAMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Trees or shrubs; Madagascar to Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)