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The Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) is a South American tree in the family Lecythidaceae, and it is also the name of the tree's commercially harvested edible seeds. [2] It is one of the largest and longest-lived trees in the Amazon rainforest .
Group photograph of an early 20th-century baseball team from Ohio. The word nigger has historically been used in the names of products, colors, plants, as place names, and as people's nicknames, among others, but has fallen out of favor since the 20th century.
This is a list of nickname-related list articles on Wikipedia. A nickname is "a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name." [ 1 ] A nickname is often considered desirable, symbolising a form of acceptance, but can sometimes be a form of ridicule.
How Brazil nuts are grown. Despite its name, the Brazil nut is actually a seed. “By definition, nuts are ‘hard-shelled fruits’ that contain a single, large seed, like the pistachio or walnut ...
When it comes to nicknames for boys, there's no shortage of great options. Check out this list of 73 options from champ and slugger to chief, boss and monkey.
The big Brazil nut has 4 grams of protein per ounce — but because of their size, that translates to just one or two nuts in a serving. They're also high in selenium — one nut provides more ...
1896 Dialect Notes I. 421 *Nigger toes: for Brazil nuts. 1958 J. M. Lacy in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 597/2 He buys..nuts called 'nigger toes'. 1973 Times 27 Aug. 5/8 In Virginia brazil nuts are called nigger-toes and chewed with great relish. Worded as a nonjudgmental statement of fact it appears encyclopedic enough to me.
Bombay duck, a kind of fish — Bombay, old name for Mumbai, coastal city in western India; Brazil nut; Brussels sprout — after the capital of Belgium; Buffalo wings, named for Buffalo, New York, where they originated; Cantaloupe (also called rockmelon), a variety of melon — Cantalupo, multiple communes in Italy