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# brazil

«brazil» in Mova's school dictionary: **the biggest country in South America, where people speak…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (Brazil — a country, proper noun); noun (a brazil, brazils — a brazil nut)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Brazil is the biggest country in South America, where people speak Portuguese; its capital is Brasília. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brazil/#m1)

2) A brazil (Brazil nut) is a large, hard, three-sided nut from a tall South American tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brazil/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons Brazil is home to most of the Amazon rainforest and the Amazon River, and has huge cities like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. It is famous for football, the Rio carnival and coffee. In science lessons, the rainforest has the most kinds of living things on Earth. Phrases: «in Brazil», «Brazil nuts», «the Brazilian rainforest».

### examples

- Brazil is the largest country in South America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brazil/#x1)
- People in Brazil speak Portuguese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brazil/#x2)
- The Amazon rainforest is mostly in Brazil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brazil/#x3)
- Brazil has won the football World Cup five times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brazil/#x4)
- Rio de Janeiro is a famous city in Brazil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brazil/#x5)
- Brazil nuts grow inside a hard round shell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brazil/#x6)
- My cousin went to the carnival in Brazil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brazil/#x7)
- The capital of Brazil is Brasília, not Rio. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brazil/#x8)
- From Brazil, in South America, comes “The Tortoise and the Mischievous Monkey,” with the adventures of other animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brazil/#x9)

### note

The country is a proper noun with a capital B: Brazil. Adjective and people: Brazilian. Traps: the language is Portuguese, not Spanish; the capital is Brasília, not Rio. Brazil nuts are a common allergy — check before sharing snacks.

### In the corpora

- [Agoutis open hard Brazil nut pods and bury spare seeds, and the forgotten seeds grow into new Brazil nut trees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/15/)
- [Bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil crack palm nuts with stones nearly as heavy as themselves, and they choose and carry the best stones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory/14/)
- [Sugar cane plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean were worked mainly by enslaved Africans, in brutal conditions where many died young.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/15/)
- [European colonisers forced Indigenous people to mine silver in Peru and Bolivia, and enslaved Africans to dig gold in Brazil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brazil» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brazil/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.