cocoa palm Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
    coconut; coco palm; coconut palm; Cocos nucifera; coconut tree; coco.

WordNet

Co"coa, Co"coa palm` noun (Also<
  • Cocoa
  • Cocoa palm
)
Etymology
Sp. & Pg. coco cocoanut, in Sp. also, cocoa palm. The Portuguese name is said to have been given from the monkeylike face at the base of the nut, fr. Pg. coco a bugbear, an ugly mask to frighten children. Cf., however, Gr. the cocoa palm and its fruit, , , a kind of Egyptian palm.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.
Co"coa noun
Etymology
Corrupted fr. cacao.
Definitions
  1. A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells.

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