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/brəzˈɪl nət/ Listen

Brazil nut

noun

Tall South American tree bearing brazil nuts. Synonyms: Bertholletia excelsa, brazil-nut tree.

Three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell. Synonym: brazil.

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"Brazil nut" Quotes from Famous Books

... horseback. A very funny-looking old man he proved to be, with a face wrinkled and tanned by sun and wind, until it resembled a piece of ancient shoe-leather left lying for years on some neglected spot of ground. A Brazil nut is not darker nor more wrinkled than was the old man's face. His long matted beard and hair had once been white, but the sun out of doors and the smoke in his smoky hut had given them a yellowish tinge, so that they looked like dry dead ...

— A Little Boy Lost • Hudson, W. H.

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... nut. But to those of you who are not familiar with the nut, I have given it to any number of people and asked for their reaction, and some said it tasted like a filbert, others said it tasted like cocoanut, and the third one named was Brazil nut. So it's a very pleasant nut to ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report - at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 • Various

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