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Answer for the clue "Nut from Australia ", 9 letters:
macadamia

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Word definitions for macadamia in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Australian evergreen tree, 1904, from Modern Latin (1858), named for Scotland-born chemist Dr. John Macadam (1827-1865), secretary of the Victoria Philosophical Institute, Australia, + abstract noun ending -ia .

Usage examples of macadamia.

Those hunter-gatherers were killed, infected, driven out, or largely replaced by arriving European farmers and herders who brought their own crops and did not domesticate any local wild species after their arrival (except for macadamia nuts in Australia).

For some mysterious reason they'd each been carrying pink plastic garden flamingos and cans of Macadamia nuts, all of which had been confiscated as being a possible bomb threat.

All it sold were lemonade and salted macadamia nuts—another local specialty.

When they started to eat their snacks, they discovered that macadamia nuts were a lot noisier to chew than popcorn.

Half a dozen soldiers with the Japanese Army’s star on their caps were buying lemonade and macadamia nuts there.

Even modern European plant geneticists have failed to develop any crop except macadamia nuts from Australia's native wild flora.

Instead, they imported all of the elements from outside Australia: the livestock, all of the crops (except macadamia nuts), the metallurgical knowledge, the steam engines, the guns, the alphabet, the political institutions, even the germs.

Even modern European plant geneticists have failed to develop any crop except macadamia nuts from Australia’s native wild flora.

He remembered that Lot especially enjoyed river bread with capers and macadamia oil.

He sliced the bread, laying each piece in a randomly assembled marinade of herbs and macadamia oil, then he wiped his hands.

Two hours later, I'm down at the local galaxy-class grocery store, in Bulk: a Manhattan of towering Lucite bins filled with steel-cut rolled oats, off-brand Froot Loops, sun-dried tomatoes, prefabricated s'mores, macadamias, French roasts and pignolias, all dispensed into your bag or bucket with a jerk at the handy Plexiglas guillotine.