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