Search Result for "bertholletia excelsa":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. tall South American tree bearing brazil nuts;
[syn: brazil nut, brazil-nut tree, Bertholletia excelsa]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Brazil nut \Bra*zil" nut`\ (br[.a]*z[i^]l" n[u^]t`). (Bot.) An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. [1913 Webster] Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seeds or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell. [1913 Webster] Brazil wood
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Bertholletia excelsa n 1: tall South American tree bearing brazil nuts [syn: brazil nut, brazil-nut tree, Bertholletia excelsa]