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- noun Plural form of
cocoanut .
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Examples
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There are certain palms which bear a fruit called cocoanuts (which are ordinarily brought to España from Guinea); these are such an aid to human life that from them, or rather from the cocoanuts, they obtain the commonest oil of that country, which is as excellent for wounds, even though they be deep ones, as that of _aparicio_.
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Oil is manufactured of the dried cocoanuts, which is of excellent quality.
A Soldier in the Philippines Needom N. Freeman
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He built the sacred fence around his dwelling; surrounded the inclosure with sacred flags of white kapa; gathered together black hogs, red fish, and white fowls, each by the lau, as directed, with other articles sacred to the gods, such as cocoanuts and white kapas, and then sat himself down to watch for the promised signs of his revenge.
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'cocoanuts' is an 'old spelling ', so I checked in Merriam Webster and that gives only
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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'cocoanuts' is an 'old spelling ', so I checked in Merriam Webster and that gives only
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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'cocoanuts' is an 'old spelling ', so I checked in Merriam Webster and that gives only
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Oh! And there were pigs and chickens on deck, and sacks of yams, while every conceivable place was festooned with strings of drinking cocoanuts and bunches of bananas.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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They joined hands and staggered up the path, with the ripe cocoanuts thudding in a monstrous rain all around them.
Chapter 16 2010
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The king was in debt to the Company to the tune of 180,000 cocoanuts, and until that was paid he was not to spend a single cocoanut on anything else.
YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010
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The lifelines were only for the strong and well, and little good were they even for these when the women and children, the bananas and cocoanuts, the pigs and trade-boxes, the sick and the dying, were swept along in a solid, screeching, groaning mass.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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