brazil

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1. A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. 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.
3. A Brazil nut.

   I picked up a handful of brazils from the bowl.