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brazil nut
| brazil wood
| brazil-nut tree
| braziletto
| brazilian
| brazilian capital
brazil nut
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun brazil nut has 2 senses
- brazil nut(n = noun.plant) bertholletia excelsa, brazil-nut tree - tall South American tree bearing brazil nuts; Array has parts: brazil, brazil nut
- brazil nut(n = noun.food) brazil - three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell; Array is a kind of edible nut
is a member of bertholletia, genus bertholletia
is a kind of nut tree
is a part of bertholletia excelsa, brazil-nut tree, brazil nut
CIDE DICTIONARY
brazil nut,
An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa ; the cream nut. [1913 Webster]
" From eighteen to twenty-four of the seeds or “nuts” grow in a hard and nearly globular shell."
[1913 Webster]
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