Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The nut or fruit of the cocoa-tree. See
cocoa .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
coconut .
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- noun large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk
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Examples
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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.
MAUKI 2010
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A young pig was promptly despatched, and while he was being roasted among hot stones, and while chickens were stewing in cocoanut milk, I persuaded one of the cooks to climb an unusually tall cocoanut palm.
Chapter 10 1913
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A young pig was promptly despatched, and while he was being roasted among hot stones, and while chickens were stewing in cocoanut milk, I persuaded one of the cooks to climb an unusually tall cocoanut palm.
Chapter 10 1911
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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.
Mauki 1911
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She rolls in the long soft grass, where the gold colored snakes are at play; she watches the young monkeys chattering and swinging among the trees, hung by the tail; she chases the splendid green parrots that fly among the trees; and she drinks the sweet milk of a cocoanut from a round cup made of its shell.
The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air 1888
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Cocoanuts contain a sweet liquid which is called cocoanut milk.
Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency R. L. Alsaker
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Plainly it would be unwise to venture within range of the arboreal hailstones without protection, for though our pith-helmets were of the best quality they were, after all, but pith, and a cocoanut is a cocoanut, the world over.
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The anthropoid apes can easily break a cocoanut with their teeth, and Guyot-Daubès thinks that possibly a gorilla has a jaw-force of 200 pounds.
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The anthropoid apes can easily break a cocoanut with their teeth, and Guyot-Daubes thinks that possibly a gorilla has a jaw-force of 200 pounds.
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On the tenth day they go again and break a cocoanut, and each man buries a little piece of it in the earth over the grave.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894
hernesheir commented on the word cocoanut
Coco a nut is.
May 18, 2010
fbharjo commented on the word cocoanut
a chocoholic?
December 17, 2011
deinonychus commented on the word cocoanut
I read "coconaut"... Sounded like a dream job...
December 18, 2011