cohune : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cohune	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for cohune
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cohune n tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory Synonym(s): cohune palm, Orbignya cohune, cohune
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cohune \Cohune"\, n., or Cohune* palm \Cohune palm\ . [Prob. fr. a native name in Honduras.] 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.