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Brazil nut  n.  (Bot.) An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seeds or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell.






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"Brazil nut" Quotes from Famous Books



... and then it had to be well rammed in and fixed, and off went the busy little creature to fetch another piece, and so on, till all was disposed of, and the tin left empty. Zoee was greatly exercised by a half-opened Brazil nut: it was too large to fix into the bark, it would not keep steady while she pecked at it, and yet there were good things inside which must be obtained. I watched her various devices with great amusement. She hung head downwards from the tree-stem and hammered at it on the ground, but it shifted ...
— Wild Nature Won By Kindness • Elizabeth Brightwen



Words linked to "Brazil nut" :   brazil, nut tree, genus Bertholletia, Bertholletia excelsa, edible nut, Bertholletia, brazil-nut tree



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