macadamia
Letters
9 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
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macadamia is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Macadamia) Género de plantas arbóreas de la familia de las proteáceas. Se trata de arbustos o árboles siempreverdes de 2 metros de altura con hojas lanceoladas u obovadas a elípticas de 6-30 cm de... Pronounced [makaˈð̞amja].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macadamia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [makaˈð̞amja] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for macadamia is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [makaˈð̞amja]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for macadamia in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is macadamia, spelled M-A-C-A-D-A-M-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Macadamia) Género de plantas arbóreas de la familia de las proteáceas. Se trata de arbustos o árboles siempreverdes de 2 metros de altura con hojas lanceoladas u obovadas a elípticas de 6-30 cm de largo por 2-12 de ancho, con bordes enteros o aserrados, organizadas en verticilos de 3 a 6. Las inflorescencias, axilares o terminales, son largos (5-30 cm) y estrechos racimos, a veces panículas, de pares bracteadas de flores hermafroditas, pediceladas, centimétricas, sin brácteas, con 4 tépalos, blancos, purpúreos o rosados, reflejos en la antesis
- 2Fruto de la macadamia, de semillas comestibles en ciertas especies.
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