Well attestedNamed for a product of the place
Pará nut
noun · first attested 19th century
Brazil nuts are gathered across Amazonia; Pará was only the export door.
The Brazil nut, named for the Amazonian state through which it was shipped.
Record
- Relationship
- Named for a product of the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 19th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Pará
- In English
Pará nut
The nuts were collected from wild trees throughout the Amazon basin and shipped out of Belém in Pará, so the state's name traveled with the cargo. Almost the entire crop still comes from wild forest, which makes the tree an economic argument for leaving it standing.
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