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BRAZIL NUTS

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 463 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BRAZIL, or BRASIL

BRAZIL NUTS , the seeds of Bertholletia excelsa, a gigantic See also:

TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree belonging to the natural See also:

order Lecythidaceae, which grows in the valleys of the See also:

AMAZONS

Amazons and generally throughout tropical See also:

AMERICA

America. The tree attains an See also:

AVERAGE

average height of 130 ft., having a smooth cylindrical See also:

TRUNK (Fr. tronc, Lat. truncus, cut off, maimed)

trunk, with a See also:

DIAMETER (from the Cr. &a, through, µErpov, measure)

diameter of' 14 ft. 50 ft. from the ground, and branching at a height of about See also:

LOO (formerly called " Lanterloo," Fr. lanturlu, the refrain of a popular 17th-century song)

loo ft. The See also:

LOWER

lower portion of the trunk presents a buttressed aspect, owing to the upward See also:

EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension of the roots in the See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of thin prop-like walls surrounding the See also:

STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")

stem. The See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit of the tree is globular, with a diameter of 5 or 6 in., and consists of a thick hard woody See also:

shell, within which are closely packed the seeds which constitute the so-called nuts of See also:

commerce. The seeds are triangular in form, having a hard woody testa enclosing the " See also:

KERNEL (O.E. cyrnel, a diminutive of " corn," seed, grain)

kernel "; and of these each fruit contains from eighteen to twenty-five. The the finances on a See also:

sound basis. He died in See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office on the 14th of fruits as they ripen fall from their lofty position, and they are at the proper See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season annually collected and broken open by the See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians. Brazil nuts are largely eaten; they also yield in the proportion of about 9 oz. to each lb of kernels a See also:

FINE

fine bland fluid oil, highly valued for use in See also:

COOKERY (Lat. coquus, a cook)

cookery, and used by watchmakers and artists.

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