BabelNet

bn:00012849n

Noun Concept

Categories: Lecythidaceae, Trees of Peru, Taxa named by Aimé Bonpland, Fruit trees, Tropical agriculture

brazil nut brazil Bertholletia excelsa Brasil Nut Brazil-nut

Three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell WordNet 3.0

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Three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

The Brazil nut is a South American tree in the family Lecythidaceae, and it is also the name of the tree's commercially harvested edible seeds. Wikipedia

The hard, brown wood of a tree of the tribe Caesalpinieae; originally the sappan, Biancaea sappan, of the East Indies, and later the brazilwood, Paubrasilia echinata. Wiktionary

IS A

edible nut

taxonomic group

PART OF

brazil nut

DESCRIBED BY SOURCE

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

HAS FRUIT TYPE

capsule

IUCN CONSERVATION STATUS

vulnerable species