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Bertholletia excelsa   Listen
Bertholletia excelsa

noun
1.
Tall South American tree bearing brazil nuts.  Synonyms: brazil-nut tree, brazil nut.






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"Bertholletia excelsa" Quotes from Famous Books



... their hideous choruses, and whose hollow and enlarged tongue bone, and expanded lower jaw enable them to utter those melancholy and startling cries, are larger and fatter than many others in the same country, and are constantly sought for as food. They eat the thick, triangular Brazil nuts (Bertholletia Excelsa), and break the hard pod which contains them with a stone, laying it on the bough of a tree, or some other stone. They sometimes get their tail between the two, of course the blow falls upon the tail, and the monkey bounds away, howling ...
— Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals • R. Lee



Words linked to "Bertholletia excelsa" :   genus Bertholletia, brazil, Bertholletia, nut tree



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