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B is for Brazil nut

Brazil nuts are the seeds of a tree from South America. The Brazil nut tree is a very large tree, and the nuts only grow when the tree is in an undisturbed forest. The insects that pollinate the Brazil nut flowers are only found near a particular kind of orchid.
The Brazil nuts themselves grow inside a large fruit the size of a coconut, with the nuts in shells like in the picture arranged like the segments of an orange.

B is for Bread

Bread is a kind of food that is baked in the oven. Bread is usually sold sliced, and you use the slices of bread to make sandwiches.

B is for Break

You break something when you damage it or split it into many pieces violently or with a lot of force.

The woman in the picture is breaking an egg.

B is for Breakfast

Breakfast is the first meal of the day. You can have all sorts of different things for breakfast. Many people have cereal with milk or toast with jam or honey. Some people prefer a cooked breakfast with bacon and eggs. Other people might like waffles or pancakes.
And some people like a breakfast with almost everything, like in the picture.

B is for Bream

Bream are freshwater fish found in lakes and slow-moving rivers in Europe. They are caught for food.

B is for Breast

Breast is another word for your chest, particularly when referring to meat from that part of a bird.

B is for Breathe

You breathe when you draw air into your lungs through your nose or mouth, and then back out again. Breathing in is inhaling and breathing out is exhaling.

B is for Bred

Bred is the past tense of breed. It is usually used to talk about animals who have been bred to look or behave a certain way, as in "this horse was bred to run fast".

B is for Breed

Breeding is the process of making offspring, or babies. The cat in the picture has bred, and has a litter of kittens.

B is for Brew

Brew means to steep, stew or ferment something, usually a drink. Beer is brewed using fermented yeast and malt.

B is for Brick

Many houses have walls that are made out of bricks. Bricks are hard, rectangular objects usually made from clay. They are very heavy.

B is for Bricklayer

A bricklayer is someone who builds walls out of bricks for a living.

B is for Bride

A bride is a woman who is about to get married. Her future husband is called the groom.

B is for Bridge

A bridge is a structure that goes over the top of something impassable so people or vehicles can get across. Bridges are usually built over chasms, rivers or other narrow bodies of water, like the narrow part of a lake or an inlet of the sea.

B is for Bridle

A bridle is a piece of equipment that a horse wears on its face. A bridle is usually made from leather, and is held on by buckles. The metal part of the bridle that goes in the horses's mouth is called the bit, and the long straps connected to the bit are called reins.
The combination of bridle, bit and reins is used to direct the horse, so you can make it go in the direction you want it to when you are riding or driving it.

B is for Briefcase

A briefcase is a rectangular bag that is most often used by professional workers. Briefcases are usually black and made of leather.

B is for Bright

Something is bright if it appears to be giving off a lot of light. Something can be bright if it makes the light itself, like the sun, or if it reflects light from something else, like a mirror.

B is for Brim

The brim of a hat is the horizontal edge that sticks out around the hat and shades your face from the sun.
The brim of a glass or bucket is the top edge, or rim. When a glass is full right to the very top it is said to be full to the brim.

B is for Brimstone

Brimstone is an old English biblical name for sulfur. Brimstone gets its name because it is formed around the vents of volcanoes.

B is for Brine

Brine is salty water. You can use brine to preserve things like olives. People describe the sea as brine.
Salty water used for medical purposes is called saline.