资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Madeira \Ma*dei"ra\, 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.

         A cup of Madeira, and a cold capon's leg. --Shak.

   {Madeira nut} (Bot.), the European walnut; the nut of the
      {Juglans regia}.