Brazilian

Examples

• All

• The festival celebrated various aspects of Brazilian culture, including dance and food.

• When I want to, I claim to be Brazilian because my father is or was.

  Fiction book (1994)

• I am half Brazilian, also half Italian and half French.

  Confess, Fletch (2022)

• At the moment, it would appear that the Brazilian Catholic Church will likely remain on this course.

  Academic text (1990)

• However, given the existing structures of distribution and exhibition, Brazilian cinema has never been truly popular.

  Academic text (1991)

• I feel like I've never seen Brazilian culture represented in this way on screen.

  Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum

• And we eat a lot of, like, Brazilian food, you know, black beans, rice, veggies.

• Bacalhau is a staple of Brazilian cooking and also turns up in Macao.

  Academic text (1991)

• She loves cooking traditional Brazilian dishes like feijoada and pão de queijo.

Compounds

B

Brazilian pepper tree

1 8.2

A small evergreen tree or shrub that people often grow for decoration

B

Brazilian guava

8.1

A South American tree that produces fragrant yellow fruit like common guava

B

Brazilian ironwood

9.9

A tree from Brazil without thorns that has very heavy, dense wood

B

Brazilian trumpeter

9.6

A bird from Brazil and Guiana that makes a loud long call and guards chickens

B

Brazilian potato tree

9.1

A South American bush or small tree with purple flowers that is not a true potato

B

Brazilian rosewood

8.4

A large Brazilian tree with hard dark wood used for furniture and guitars

Surface Forms

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Etymology