cocoa palm : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cocoa palm	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cocoa palm n tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics Synonym(s): coconut, coconut palm, coco palm, coco, cocoa palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cocoa \Co"coa\ (k[omac]"k[osl]), n., Cocoa palm \Co"coa palm`\ (p[aum]m`)[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. koy^ki the cocoa palm and its fruit, ko`i:x, ko`i:kos, a kind of Egyptian palm.] (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.