1.  brazil(n = noun.location) brasil, federative republic of brazil - the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter; Array
is a kind of south american country, south american nation
is a part of south america
has parts: triple frontier, acre, belem, feliz lusitania, para, santa maria de belem, st. mary of bethlehem, belo horizonte, brasilia, brazilian capital, capital of brazil, curitiba, joao pessoa, governador valadares, limeira, natal, rio, rio de janeiro, pernambuco, recife, santos, sao bernardo do campo, sao goncalo, sao joao de meriti, sao jose dos campos, sao louis, sao paulo, amazon, amazon river, araguaia, araguaia river, araguaya, araguaya river, iguassu, iguassu falls, iguazu, iguazu falls, victoria falls, madeira, madeira river, para, para river, parana, parana river, parnahiba, parnaiba, paulo afonso, paulo afonso falls, purus, purus river, sao francisco, guaira, guaira falls, sete quedas, tocantins, tocantins river, urubupunga, urubupunga falls
is a member of oas, organization of american states
Derived form adjective brazilian₁

2.  brazil(n = noun.food) brazil nut - three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell; Array
is a kind of edible nut
is a part of bertholletia excelsa, brazil-nut tree, brazil nut

brazil, n.
1 a a lofty tree, Bertholletia excelsa, forming large forests in S. America. b (in full Brazil nut) a large three-sided nut with an edible kernel from this tree.
2 (in full Brazil-wood) a hard red wood from any tropical tree of the genus Caesalpina, that yields dyes.

Etymology:
the name of a S.Amer. country, named from Brazil-wood, ult. f. med.L brasilium

brazil nut, brazil wood, capital of brazil, federative republic of brazil