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Brazil (City of Indiana the countyseat)

a city of Indiana, the countyseat of Clair co. It is on the Central Indiana, the Chicago and Eastern Illinois, and the Vandalia railroads. Its chief industry is the mining of block coal. There are also manufactures of mining machines, pianos, wire, sewer pipe, etc. Large deposits of clay exist in the vicinity. It has a Carnegie library and other public buildings.

Pop. (1910) 9,340; (1920) 9,293.

BRAZIL NUTS or CHOU BRAZIL CABBAGE, plied to various species of caladium and constituting the typical one of the subcolocasia (natural order, craceæ) , which yield edible tubers, and are largely cultivated in the tropics. 2. The narrow leaved C.