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Definition of Brazil nut

1. Noun. Tall South American tree bearing brazil nuts.

2. Noun. Three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell.

Definition of Brazil nut

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of brazil nut) ¹

2. Noun. A tree native to tropical South America. ¹

3. Noun. The nut produced by this tree. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Brazil nut

1. An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brazil Nut

brazenfaces brazening brazenly brazenness brazennesses brazenry brazens brazer brazers brazes

brazier brazierlike braziers brazil brazil-nut tree brazil nut (current term) brazil wood brazilein brazileins braziletto

brazilettoes brazilettos brazilian ironwood brazilianite brazilin brazilins brazils brazilwood brazilwoods brazing

Literary usage of Brazil nut

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

1. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1911)
"Brazil-nut (Bertholletia excelsa Humb. and Bonpl.).—Large quantities of this nut are ... Composition o] the Brazil-nut.—Edible portion, 50.4; refuse, 49.6. ..."

2. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller (1906)
"BRAZIL-NUT. The Brazil-nut, also known as the Para-nut from the port of shipment, and incorrectly as the castanea-nut, is the seed of a large tree ..."

3. Vegetable Fats and Oils: Their Practical Preparation, Purification by Louis Edgar Andés, Charles Salter (1902)
"»The mineral oil used has a specific gravity of 0'865 to •800, and should be perfectly water-white and free from acid. BRAZIL-NUT OIL. ..."

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