Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pinnately leaved palm, Attalea Cohune, native of Central America. The fruit yields oil and is used in the same manner as the ivory-nut for turning small articles. See
Attalea and corozo, 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm (
Attalea cohune ), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a substitute for coconut oil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A species of
palm , Orbignya cohune, native toSouth America , producing largenuts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
Etymologies
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Examples
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The pine trees are larger and numerous, and the pine forest intersects other formations of interest such as rainforest, cohune palm (corozal), cactus associations, and others.
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Pictured here is the Mayan ruin Xunantunich, notice the large cohune palms on the right side.
Archive 2006-07-01 Scott Schmidt 2006
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My group performed a drama scene in which we transformed into a cohune palm and each presented a short dialogue about the different tree parts and their uses.
Chaa Creek Scott Schmidt 2006
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My group performed a drama scene in which we transformed into a cohune palm and each presented a short dialogue about the different tree parts and their uses.
Archive 2006-07-01 Scott Schmidt 2006
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I learned much about the Cohune Palm Orbignya cohune in an activity building session with the other teachers.
Chaa Creek Scott Schmidt 2006
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I learned much about the Cohune Palm Orbignya cohune in an activity building session with the other teachers.
Archive 2006-07-01 Scott Schmidt 2006
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Pictured here is the Mayan ruin Xunantunich, notice the large cohune palms on the right side.
Chaa Creek Scott Schmidt 2006
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The cohune palm is probably the most important tree to the Mayans.
Archive 2006-07-01 Scott Schmidt 2006
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The cohune palm is probably the most important tree to the Mayans.
Chaa Creek Scott Schmidt 2006
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- Cohune, Orbignya cohune, growing in Central America, the nuts containing a kernel with 60 % oil comparable to coconut oil,
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