noun
Usage: usually capitalized B
Etymology: brazil (II)
1. also brazil-nut tree : a tall So. American tree ( Bertholletia excelsa ) that bears large globular capsules each containing several closely packed roughly triangular nuts
2. : any of the brown-shelled white-fleshed nuts borne in the fruit of a brazil nut — called also cream nut, niggertoe, para nut