brazil nut

Questions about brazil nut

What does brazil nut mean?

brazil nut means "tall South American tree bearing brazil nuts". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for brazil nut?

Close synonyms include brazil-nut tree, Bertholletia excelsa, brazil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brazil nut a common word?

brazil nut is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.