brazil nut Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun tall South American tree bearing brazil nuts
brazil-nut tree; Bertholletia excelsa.
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noun three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell
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WordNet
Bra*zil" nut`
Definitions
(Bot.) 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.
