Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river rising in northern Nicaragua and flowing about 485 km (300 mi) northeast along the Nicaragua-Honduras border to the Caribbean Sea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the British West Indies, the taroplant, Caladium Colocasia.
- noun A name in Argentina of a tree of the rue family, Fagara Coco found in the sierras of the country. It has a powerful penetrating odor and yields a wood of a beautiful light-green color. Also called
cochucho . - noun The nutgrass, Cyperus rotundus. See
Cyperus . Alsococo-sedge .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
cocoa .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
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Examples
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But in Spanish we also use the term Coco to mean 'bald', 'crazy' or 'stupid'
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Fresh out in the first years of a new century, she acquired the nickname "Coco," from cocotte a term for a "loose woman".
The Enduring Coco Chanel Laura Jacobs 2011
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"Coco is going to be a bumblebee and Courteney is going to be a sunflower."
Courteney Cox & David Arquette Will Take Coco Trick-Or-Treating people.com 2010
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Socialite Esther Silber, who is sometimes referred to as "Coco" or "Esther Coco Silber," has 1,450 friends on Facebook.
Shira Hirschman Weiss: Will You Be My "Friend"? Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011
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"Coco is going to be a bumblebee and Courteney is going to be a sunflower."
Courteney Cox & David Arquette Will Take Coco Trick-Or-Treating The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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I didn't mean to be dismissive of Good Hair (see my comment below), but I would be lying if I said I had any interest in Coco Before Chanel.
This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: Law Abiding Citizen, Black Dynamite, Cabin Fever 2, and More | /Film 2010
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Socialite Esther Silber, who is sometimes referred to as "Coco" or "Esther Coco Silber," has 1,450 friends on Facebook.
Shira Hirschman Weiss: Will You Be My "Friend"? Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011
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The botched handoff rocked the TV industry, but less than a year later Team Coco is back at work, giving basic-cable network TBS a proven late-night name — Conan — at 11/10c to compete with Leno and David Letterman, not to mention Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Chelsea Handler and other cable options that have fragmented the after-hours audience in recent years.
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Socialite Esther Silber, who is sometimes referred to as "Coco" or "Esther Coco Silber," has 1,450 friends on Facebook.
Shira Hirschman Weiss: Will You Be My "Friend"? Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011
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Coco is a very well made and acted movie while Good Hair might be one of the funniest and educational documentaries of last year.
This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: Law Abiding Citizen, Black Dynamite, Cabin Fever 2, and More | /Film 2010
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