brazil

noun

• A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood.
• The hard, brown wood of a tree of the tribe Caesalpinieae; originally the sappan, Biancaea sappan, of the East Indies, and later the brazilwood, Paubrasilia echinata.
• A Brazil nut.

  "I picked up a handful of brazils from the bowl."

• A seam of coal containing iron pyrites