Editing Brazil nut (section)

==Common names==

In Portuguese-speaking countries, like [[Brazil]], they are variously called "{{lang|pt|castanha-do-brasil|italic=yes}}"<ref name=":p0">{{cite web |url=http://ainfo.cnptia.embrapa.br/digital/bitstream/item/47749/1/folder-castanhadobrasil.pdf | title=Nomes comuns: castanha-do-brasil, castanha-do-pará ou castanha-da-amazônia }}  - Folder Embrapa</ref><ref name=":p1">COSTA, J. R. (et al.).[http://www.scielo.br/pdf/aa/v39n4/v39n4a13.pdf Uma das espécies nativas mais valiosas da floresta amazônica de terra firme é a castanha-do-brasil ou castanha-da-amazônia (''Bertholletia excelsa'')], - Acta Amazônica vol. 39(4) 2009: 843 - 850</ref> (meaning "cashew from Brazil" in Portuguese), "{{lang|pt|castanha-do-pará|italic=yes}}" (meaning "cashew from [[Pará]]" in Portuguese), with other names: castanha-da-amazônia,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Filho |first1=João Carlos Meireles |title=O livro de ouro da Amazônia: mitos e verdades sobre a região mais cobiçada do planeta |date=2004 |publisher=Ediouro |isbn=978-85-00-01357-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TvIrAAAAYAAJ&q=%22a%20%C3%BAnica%20conhecida%20fora%22 |access-date=8 July 2023 |language=pt-BR}}</ref> castanha-do-acre,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ambiente.sp.gov.br/wp-content/uploads/cea/wwf_1.pdf | title=Negócios para Amazônia sustentável | access-date=July 8, 2023 | archive-date=October 19, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019081742/http://www.ambiente.sp.gov.br/wp-content/uploads/cea/wwf_1.pdf | url-status=dead }} - Ministério do Meio Ambiente. Rio de Janeiro, 2003. p. 50.</ref> "{{lang|pt|noz amazônica|italic=yes}}" (meaning "Amazonian nut" in Portuguese), noz boliviana, tocari ("probably of Carib origin"<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shepard |first1=Glenn H. |last2=Ramirez |first2=Henri |title="Made in Brazil": Human Dispersal of the Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa, Lecythidaceae) in Ancient Amazonia1 |journal=Economic Botany |date=March 2011 |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=44–65 |doi=10.1007/s12231-011-9151-6|s2cid=43465637 }}</ref>), and tururi (from [[Tupi language|Tupi]] ''turu'ri''<ref>Ferreira, A. B. H. (1986). ''Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa'' (2nd edition). Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira. p. 1729</ref>) also used.<ref name=mori/>

In various Spanish-speaking countries of [[South America]], Brazil nuts are called {{lang|es|castañas de Brasil|italic=yes}}, {{lang|es|nuez de Brasil|italic=yes}}, or {{lang|es|castañas de Pará (or Para)|italic=yes}}.<ref name=mori/><ref>{{Cite report |url=http://www.puntofocal.gov.ar/notific_otros_miembros/ury45_t.pdf|title=PROYECTO PARA DECLARACIÓN DE ALÉRGENOS y SUSTANCIAS QUE PRODUCEN REACCIONES ADVERSAS EN LOS RÓTULOS DE LOS ALIMENTOS, CUALQUIERA SEA SU ORIGEN, ENVASADOS EN AUSENCIA DEL CLIENTE, LISTOS PARA SER OFRECIDOS AL CONSUMIDOR (DEC. 117/006 DEL RBN)  |trans-title=Project for Declaration of Allergens and Substances that produce adverse reactions in food labels, whatever their origin, packaged in the absence of the client, ready to be offered to the consumer|publisher=Argentine government|date=n.d.|page=3}}</ref>

In North America, as early as 1896, Brazil nuts were sometimes known by the [[slang]] term "[[nigger]] toes",<ref>{{cite book |last=Lyons |first=A. B. |year=2015 |title=Plant Names, Scientific and Popular |edition=2nd |publisher=Arkose Press |page=71 |isbn=978-1345211849}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Young |first=W. J. |year=1911 |title=The Brazil Nut |journal=Botanical Gazette |volume=52 |issue=3 |pages=226–231 |doi=10.1086/330613 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1431393 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite dictionary |title="Nigger", noun and adjective |dictionary=Oxford English Dictionary |url=https://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/126934 |access-date=29 November 2019 |date=2019}}</ref> a [[vulgarity]] that fell out of use after the [[racial slur]] became more [[socially unacceptable]].<ref>{{cite magazine |author1=Essig, Laurie |date=12 July 2016 |title=White Like Me, Nice Like Me |magazine=Psychology Today |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-studies/201607/white-me-nice-me |access-date=29 November 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Brunvand|first=J. H. |year=1972 |title=The Study of Contemporary Folklore: Jokes |journal=[[Fabula (journal)|Fabula]] |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=1–19 |doi=10.1515/fabl.1972.13.1.1 |s2cid=162318582 |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/e3d74c14ec7bc60598cb9d7711acc84f/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1818081|url-access=subscription }}</ref>