brazil

/bɹə.ˈzɪl/

noun

  1. 1

    A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood.

  2. 2

    The hard, brown wood of a tree of the tribe Caesalpinieae; originally the sappan, Biancaea sappan, of the East Indies, and later the brazilwood, Paubrasilia echinata.

  3. 3

    A Brazil nut.

    I picked up a handful of brazils from the bowl.
  4. 4

    A seam of coal containing iron pyrites

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