brazil

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1. •
   A Brazil nut.

   • I picked up a handful of brazils from the bowl.
2. •
   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.

   • The Prouince Brasilia tooke his name of the woode called Brasill. — 1594
3. •
   A seam of coal containing iron pyrites
4. •
   (no longer used) A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood.

   • A small Quantity of Saffron will Tinct more then a very great Quantity of Brasil. — 1627

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1. •
   A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital: Brasília.

   • In February, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe in Brazil made brief contact with the outside world before returning to the Amazon rainforest. — 2025