See Also: Madia(medicine)
madia(dictionary)

suavity (iou) and madia (iou)


suavity (iou)



suavity noun. LME.
[Partly from Latin suavitas (from suavis SUAVE); partly from French suavite: see -ITY.]
Pleasantness or agreeableness of taste, smell, sound, manner, etc. LME-E19.
The quality or condition of being suave in manner; rare, a suave action. E19.

madia (iou)



madia noun. M19.
[mod. Latin (see below), from Chilean Spanish madi from Araucanian.]
A coarse hairy Chilean plant, Madia sativa, allied to the sunflower, which is cultivated for its oil-rich seeds.