BRAZIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Brazil mean? 

• BRAZIL (noun)
  The noun BRAZIL has 2 senses:

1. 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

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

  Familiarity information: BRAZIL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAZIL (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Brasil; Brazil; Federative Republic of Brazil

Instance hypernyms:

South American country; South American nation (any one of the countries occupying the South American continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Brazil"):

Para; Para River (an estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows)

Sao Goncalo (an industrial city in southeastern Brazil across the bay from 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)

Urubupunga; Urubupunga Falls (a waterfall in the Parana river in Brazil)

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)

Sao Bernardo do Campo (a city in southeastern Brazil; an industrial suburb of Sao Paulo)

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 Joao de Meriti (a city in southeastern Brazil that is a residential suburb of 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

brazil; brazil nut

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)

 Context examples 

The Mata Atlântica is a region with high-density forests that covers the South and Southeast of Brazil, home to 70 percent of the country's population.

(Human malaria spread from monkeys found in Brazil, SciDev.Net)

The studies, released this week, show that the viruses belong to the so-called South American 1E lineage, which, according to the institute, has been predominant in Brazil since 2008.

(Brazil scientists find mutations in yellow fever virus, Agência Brasil)

The medicine is produced by the British company GW Pharma Limited, and the Beaufour Ipsen Farmacêutica Ltda. (based in São Paulo) obtained the drug registration in Brazil.

(Brazil grants registration for first cannabis-based drug, Agência Brasil)

Looking at maize, the phenomenon caused 38 per cent of production variance in northeast Brazil, 20 per cent in southwest Mexico and 15 per cent in West Africa.

(El Niño linked to widespread crop failures, SciDev.Net)

Excessive fire suppression might be devastating to the species that depend on natural savanna habitats, both in Brazil and in other regions of the world such as parts of Africa.

(Fire control harms biodiversity in Brazilian savannah, SciDev.Net)

A country in central South America, southwest of Brazil.

(Bolivia, Plurinational State of, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Central South America, southwest of Brazil.

(Bolivia, Plurinational State of, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The impact of the sea level and temperature rise is much greater in Brazil, because the country has a significant portion of its cities located along a long coastline.

(Brazil's coastal cities more vulnerable to climate change, Agência Brasil)

They are growing in a remote region of northern Brazil, far from human activity, and may be over 400 years old.

(Expedition finds tallest tree in the Amazon, University of Cambridge)

A team of Brazilian researchers studied samples of microplastics collected along a 39-kilometre stretch of the Paraná State coastline, in southern Brazil.

(Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems, scidev.net)