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Cocoanut

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Variant of coconut.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Alternative spelling of coconut.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The nut or fruit of the cocoa-tree. See cocoa.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk

Word Usage

"He cut out the cocoanut from the shells day after day; and for long days and weeks he fed the fires that smoked the copra, till his eyes got sore and he was set to felling trees."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

edible nut

Cross Reference

double cocoanut cocoanut matting cocoanut stearin sea-cocoanut cocoanut olein

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

coconut cocoa-nut pineapple almond currant