Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Madeira

Madeira , noun

[Portuguese, the Island Madeira, properly, wood, from Latin materia stuff, wood. The island was so called because well wooded. See Matter.]

A rich wine made on the Island of Madeira.
A cup of Madeira, and a cold capon's leg. — Shakespeare
Collocations (1)
Madeira nut (Botany) , the European walnut; the nut of the Juglans regia.