[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.
1852. T. Ross, trans. Humboldt’s Trav., II. xxiv. 449. The almendron, or juvia, one of the most majestic trees of the forests of the New World.
1862. Smiles, Engineers, III. 248. And towering over all, the great Almendrons.
