brazil-nut tree
- noun
- /brəˈzɪl nʌt tri/
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castaña de Brasil
- Also understand that you can curate the jungle, Brazil nut trees becoming more prevalent, etcetera.
Also understand that you can curate the jungle, Brazil nut trees becoming more prevalent, etcetera.
- Also understand that you can curate the jungle, Brazil nut trees becoming more prevalent, etcetera.
Examples
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Many animals depend on the Brazil nut tree for food, making it an important part of the rainforest ecosystem.
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The macaws should be nesting near the Brazil nut trees.
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The Brazil nut tree is known for its large woody fruits that contain the precious nuts.
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Researchers study the Brazil nut tree because of its economic importance to local communities in South America.
Synonyms
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A tree that grows nuts you can eat
A tall South American tree that produces Brazil nuts
A tall Amazon rainforest tree that makes large seeds you can eat
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Surface Forms
Morphology
brazil-nut + tree
The meaning ‘a tree that produces Brazil nuts’ is directly and compositionally derived from the compound pattern brazil-nut + tree: a noun naming the fruit plus ‘tree’ meaning a plant. This straightforward noun–noun compounding is cross-linguistically common and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words (or can infer brazil-nut from brazil + nut) and the botanical sense of ‘tree’.
Etymology
The noun brazil-nut tree names a very tall Amazon tree that makes the hard seeds called 'Brazil nuts'. The name joins brazil, nut, and tree to show it is literally the tree that produces those nuts, so brazil-nut tree means 'the tree that produces Brazil nuts'.