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