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 to South America, producing large nuts.

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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Spanish, perhaps from Miskito ókhún.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Belizian pine forests 2008

  • Pictured here is the Mayan ruin Xunantunich, notice the large cohune palms on the right side.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Scott Schmidt 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • I learned much about the Cohune Palm Orbignya cohune in an activity building session with the other teachers.

    Chaa Creek Scott Schmidt 2006

  • 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

  • Pictured here is the Mayan ruin Xunantunich, notice the large cohune palms on the right side.

    Chaa Creek Scott Schmidt 2006

  • The cohune palm is probably the most important tree to the Mayans.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Scott Schmidt 2006

  • The cohune palm is probably the most important tree to the Mayans.

    Chaa Creek Scott Schmidt 2006

  • - Cohune, Orbignya cohune, growing in Central America, the nuts containing a kernel with 60 % oil comparable to coconut oil,

    1. Oil Plants and their Potential Use 1989

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