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BRAZIL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("brazil" is a kind of...):
edible nut (a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell)
Holonyms ("brazil" is a part of...):
Bertholletia excelsa; brazil-nut tree; brazil nut (tall South American tree bearing brazil nuts)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter
Synonyms:
Brasil; Brazil; Federative Republic of Brazil
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
South American country; South American nation (any one of the countries occupying the South American continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Brazil"):
Sao Joao de Meriti (a city in southeastern Brazil that is a residential suburb of Rio de Janeiro)
Sao Jose dos Campos (a city in southeastern Brazil to the northeast of Sao Paulo)
Sao Louis (a city on an offshore island in northeast Brazil)
Sao Paulo (an ultramodern city in southeastern Brazil; the largest city in South America)
Amazon; Amazon River (a major South American river; arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles))
Araguaia; Araguaia River; Araguaya; Araguaya River (a river in central Brazil that flows generally northward (with many falls) to join the Tocantins River)
Iguassu; Iguassu Falls; Iguazu; Iguazu Falls; Victoria Falls (a large waterfall on the border between Argentina and Brazil)
Madeira; Madeira River (a Brazilian river; tributary of the Amazon River)
Para; Para River (an estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows)
Parana; Parana River (a South American river; tributary of Rio de la Plata)
Parnahiba; Parnaiba (a river in northeastern Brazil that flows generally northward to the Atlantic Ocean)
Paulo Afonso; Paulo Afonso Falls (a major waterfall in northeastern Brazil)
Purus; Purus River (a Brazilian river; tributary of the Amazon River)
Sao Francisco (a river in eastern Brazil flowing into the Atlantic Ocean)
Guaira; Guaira Falls; Sete Quedas (a great waterfall on the border between Brazil and Paraguay)
Tocantins; Tocantins River (a river in eastern Brazil that flows generally north to the Para River)
Urubupunga; Urubupunga Falls (a waterfall in the Parana river in Brazil)
Triple Frontier (the border area where Argentina and Brazil and Paraguay meet; an active South American center for contraband and drug trafficking and money laundering; a suspected locale for Islamic extremist groups)
Acre (a territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru)
Belem; Feliz Lusitania; Para; Santa Maria de Belem; St. Mary of Bethlehem (port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin)
Belo Horizonte (city in southeastern Brazil to the north of Rio de Janeiro; the first of Brazil's planned communities)
Brasilia; Brazilian capital; capital of Brazil (the capital of Brazil; a city built on the central plateau and inaugurated in 1960)
Curitiba (a city in southeastern Brazil)
Joao Pessoa (a city in northeastern Brazil near the Atlantic Ocean to the north of Recife)
Governador Valadares (a city in eastern Brazil to the northeast of Belo Horizonte)
Limeira (a city of southeastern Brazil (northwest of Sao Paulo))
Natal (a port city in northeastern Brazil)
Rio; Rio de Janeiro (the former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil; chief Brazilian port; famous as a tourist attraction)
Pernambuco; Recife (a port city of northeastern Brazil on the Atlantic)
Santos (a port city in southwestern Brazil on an offshore island near Sao Paulo)
Sao Bernardo do Campo (a city in southeastern Brazil; an industrial suburb of Sao Paulo)
Sao Goncalo (an industrial city in southeastern Brazil across the bay from Rio de Janeiro)
Meronyms (members of "Brazil"):
Brazilian (a native or inhabitant of Brazil)
Domain member category:
macumba ((Brazil) followers of a religious cult of African origin)
Holonyms ("Brazil" is a part of...):
South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)
Holonyms ("Brazil" is a member of...):
OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)
Derivation:
Brazilian (of or relating to or characteristic of Brazil or the people of Brazil)
Context examples:
The product is being develop by scientists from the Institute of Drug Technology (Farmanguinhos), linked to FIOCRUZ, the main institution for the production of antiretroviral medicines with Brazil's Ministry of Health.
(New HIV medicine under development for children in Brazil, Agência Brasil/EBC)
Why do I secretly give Miss Shepherd twelve Brazil nuts for a present, I wonder?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Brazil's National Museum, in Rio de Janeiro, unveiled the details surrounding the discovery of hundreds of remains of pterosaur bones and 300 eggs—some of them with preserved embryos—in China.
(Brazil and China scientists unearth pterosaur eggs with preserved embryos, Agência Brasil)
It contains descriptions of species provided by researchers from all around Brazil and abroad.
(Report unveils 381 new plant and animal species in Amazon, Agência Brasil)
The sky was grey in several cities west and south of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state.
(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)
One useful result of his former experiences was that he could talk fluently in the Lingoa Geral, which is the peculiar talk, one-third Portuguese and two-thirds Indian, which is current all over Brazil.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Scientists from the World Mosquito Program (WMP), who conducted the trials in Australia, Brazil, Indonesia and Vietnam, told that Wolbachia works by inhibiting reproduction of the viral pathogens while inside the mosquitoes.
(Bacteria-infected mosquitoes slash dengue cases, SciDev.Net)
More than 90 per cent of this form of the disease occurs in Brazil, Bolivia, Ethiopia and Peru.
(Study uncovers cause of aggressive leishmaniasis strain, SciDev.Net)
Denotes a person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa whose family settled in a South or Central American country such as Argentina, Brazil, or Mexico.
(Black South or Central American, NCI Thesaurus)
The deforestation of the Atlantic Forest, Brazil's second most important forest, grew 57.7% in a year, from 2015 to 2016, when the biome lost 29,075 hectares, or 29 thousand football fields.
(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)
