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A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital: Brasília.
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A city, the county seat of Clay County, Indiana, United States.
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noun
A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood.
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noun
The hard, brown wood of a certain species of the tribe Caesalpinieae; originally sappan (Biancaea sappan), of the East Indies, and later brazilwood, Paubrasilia echinata.
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noun
A Brazil nut.
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noun
A seam of coal containing iron pyrites
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three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell
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Synonyms: brazil nut
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Broader terms: edible nut
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the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter
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Synonyms: Federative Republic of Brazil, Brasil
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Broader terms: South American country, South American nation
History
Etymology tree Vulgar Latin *brasa Old Galician-Portuguese brasa Portuguese brasa Proto-Indo-European *-elis Proto-Italic *-elis Latin -īlislbor. Portuguese -il Portuguese brasilder. Portuguese Terra do Brasilellip. Portuguese Brasilder. Portuguese Brazilbor. English Brazil From Portuguese Brazil, older spelling of Brasil, from brasil (“brazilwood”), originally ‘red like an ember’, from brasa (“ember”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brasō (“gleed, crackling coal”), and -il (“-ile, -like, -y”) from Latin -īlis (“adjective suffix”).
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