Definition of Brazil nut

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

Exact synonyms: Bertholletia Excelsa, Brazil-nut Tree
Terms within: Brazil
Group relationships: Bertholletia, Genus Bertholletia
Generic synonyms: Nut Tree

2. Noun. Three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell.
Exact synonyms: Brazil
Generic synonyms: Edible Nut
Group relationships: Bertholletia Excelsa, Brazil-nut Tree

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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