brazil nut Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun tall South American tree bearing brazil nuts
    brazil-nut tree; Bertholletia excelsa.
  2. noun three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell
    brazil.

WordNet


Bra*zil" nut`
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913