madeira

What it means

1. An archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal.
2. The largest island in the Madeira Archipelago; in full, Madeira Island.
3. The largest tributary of the Amazon, running 900 miles from Pando Department, Bolivia through the states of Rondônia and Amazonas, Brazil to its mouth east of Manaus; in full, Madeira River.

In a sentence

Add to this, Madeira which had twice ripened beneath eastern suns—once in the grape, and once in the wood; and Port whose filmy robe of cobweb had, as old Adrian boasted, outlasted many a silken dress.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 280

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Indo-European*méh₂tēr“mother”
2. Latinmateria
3. Portuguesemadeira“wood”
4. PortugueseMadeira
5. EnglishMadeira

From Portuguese Madeira, from Portuguese madeira (“wood”), from Latin materia, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Doublet of matter.