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‖ almenˈdron [Sp., augm. of almendra, quasi ‘the great almond.’] The Brazil-nut tree (Bertholettia excelsa), which forms large forests on the banks of the Amazon and Rio Negro.
1852T. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. II. xxiv. 449 The almendron, or juvia, one of the most majestic trees of the forests of the New World. 1862Smiles Engineers III. 248 And towering over all, the great Almendrons. |