Definition of Bertholletia

1. Noun. Brazil nut.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Bertholletia

Bernstein mode
Bernstein test
Bernsteinian
Berovo
Berra
Berry
Berry's ligaments
Berson test
Bert
Bert and Ernie
Berteroa
Berteroa incana
Bertha
Berthelot reaction
Berthollet's law
Bertholletia (current term)
Bertholletia excelsa
Bertie
Bertillon
Bertillon system
Bertin's bones
Bertin's columns
Bertin's ligament
Bertin's ossicles
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolucci
Bertram
Bertrand-Chebyshev theorem
Bertrand Arthur William Russell
Bertrand Russell

Literary usage of Bertholletia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"... in the strongly swollen central portion of the axis of the shoot of the embryo-plant. Bertholletia excelsa. The embryo of Bertholletia excelsa is ..."

2. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"... obtuse, by far the longest, the Fio. 8bO.—Bertholletia excelsa. Nat. size. others gradually becoming shorter towards the base ; petiole 2-5- 8 mm. long. ..."

3. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller (1906)
"... and incorrectly as the castanea-nut, is the seed of a large tree (Bertholletia excelsa Humb. et Bpl. order ..."

4. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland, Thomasina Ross (1852)
"among the monocotyledons, and the bertholletia and the lecythis among the ... Within the tropics, the bertholletia forms in less than fifty or sixty days a ..."

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