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Madeira

Madeira

1. A rich wine made on the island of madeira.

2. (Science: botany) madeira nut, the European walnut; the nut of the juglans regia.

Origin: pg, the island madeira, properly, wood, fr. L. Materia stuff, wood. The island was so called because well wooded.


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