Meaning of Brazil | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood.
   obsolete
2. A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital: Brasília.
3. A surname from Irish.
4. Brazil (a large Portuguese-speaking country in South America)
5. 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.
6. A city, the county seat of Clay County, Indiana, United States.
7. A Brazil nut.
8. A seam of coal containing iron pyrites

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Examples

“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.”

“A small Quantity of Saffron will Tinct more then a very great Quantity of Brasil.”

“The Prouince Brasilia tooke his name of the woode called Brasill.”

“Thou know'st my brittle temper's prone to break. Are my bones brazil or my flesh of oak?”

“[P]ernambucco – the finest brasil from Brazil, so strong it almost resembles iron – became the favoured material for good bows.”

“I picked up a handful of brazils from the bowl.”

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