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Brazil

//ˈbɹæzəl// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    A surname from Irish.
  3. 3
    A city, the county seat of Clay County, Indiana, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood. obsolete

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

  2. 2
    three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    A Brazil nut.

    "I picked up a handful of brazils from the bowl."

  5. 5
    A seam of coal containing iron pyrites

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Portuguese Brazil, older spelling of Brasil, from brasil (“brazilwood”), originally ‘red like an ember’, from brasa (“ember”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brasō (“gleed, crackling coal”), and -il (“-ile, -like, -y”) from Latin -īlis (“adjective suffix”).

Etymology 2

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Breasail (“descendant of Breasal”), a byname meaning "strife".

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