Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of Myrtaceæ, of which only one species, B. excelsa, is known.
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- noun brazil nut
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Examples
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Nothing is more fitted to fill the mind with admiration of the force of organic action in the equinoctial zone than the aspect of those great igneous pericarps, for instance, the cocoa-tree (lodoicea) of the Maldives among the monocotyledons, and the bertholletia and the lecythis among the dicotyledons.
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Perhaps this tree denoted the existence of a forest of bertholletia in the inland country on the east and north-east.
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Within the tropics, the bertholletia forms in less than fifty or sixty days a pericarp, the ligneous part of which is half an inch thick, and which it is difficult to saw with the sharpest instruments.
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Rio Padamo, to gather juvias, or the fruit of the bertholletia, and the liana which yields the curare.
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Experiments made at San Carlos have shown how rare it is to succeed in causing the bertholletia to germinate, on account of its ligneous pericarp, and the oil contained in its nut which so readily becomes rancid.
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The branches of the bertholletia are open, very long, almost entirely bare towards the base, and loaded at their summits with tufts of very close foliage.
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The pericarp of the bertholletia has traces of four cells, and I have sometimes found even five.
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The Novus Orbis of Laet, in which I found the first account of the cow-tree, furnishes also a description and a figure singularly exact of the fruit of the bertholletia.
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He had noted the grand tropical trees -- the palms and _pothos_ plants -- the _mimosas_ and _musaceae_ -- the magnificent forms of the _lombax_ and _bertholletia_ -- the curious
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850
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Monkeys may have been seen rolling along the fruit of the bertholletia, but though this fruit has
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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