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madeira


1. A rich wine made on the Island of Madeira.

2. <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.

Source: Websters Dictionary