n. [ Pg., the Island Madeira, properly, wood, fr. L. materia stuff, wood. The island was so called because well wooded. See Matter. ] A rich wine made on the Island of Madeira. [ 1913 Webster ]
A cup of Madeira, and a cold capon's leg. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Madeira nut (Bot.),
(Bot.) A herbaceous climbing vine (Boussingaultia baselloides) very popular in cultivation, having shining entire leaves and racemes of small fragrant white flowers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. (Bot.) A small South American shrub (Solanum pseudocapsicum) cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherrylike fruit.
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