Definitions
tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
Word origin
From Portuguese/Spanish coco (“grinning face”) (due to the three holes in the shell resembling a human face). Doublet of coque.
Used in a sentence
“I turn round and round to see the high mountains, the thick coco trees.”
“They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber.”
“The coco is a very common fruit, and but little esteemed; […]”
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