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brazil nut

brazil nut

2.4
A large nut you can eat with a hard brown shell and creamy white inside from South America
  • noun
  • /brəˈzɪl nʌt/
translation icon : nuez de Brasil
  • The brazil nut is valued for its rich, buttery flavor and high selenium content.

Examples

  • She cracked open a brazil nut as a snack during the movie.

  • A bowl of mixed nuts usually contains at least one brazil nut.

  • The brazil nut is rich in selenium.

  • I love eating brazil nuts as a snack.

  • A bowl of mixed nuts usually contains at least one brazil nut.

  • She cracked open a brazil nut as a snack during the movie.

  • The brazil nut is valued for its rich, buttery flavor and high selenium content.

Synonyms

nut
vsbrazil nut
337 1.0

A large hard seed with a shell that you can eat

is a specific three-sided South American seed with oily creamy white flesh

How Big

brazil nut
2.4
walnut
54 1.0
hazelnut
25 1.0
pistachio
11 3.9

Surface Forms

brazil nut singular
brazil nuts plural

Morphology

Brazil + nut

The meaning 'a type of edible nut associated with Brazil' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'Brazil' (a country/place-name) with 'nut' (an edible seed). This place-name + noun composition is a common, predictable pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Brazil nut gets its name from the country Brazil, where these big, three-sided nuts grow in the Amazon and long ago were sent to Europe by traders. So Brazil nut means the edible nut that comes from Brazil.