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cocoanut

cocoanut

1 3.1
A large round fruit with a hard shell, white flesh and liquid you can drink inside
  • noun
  • /ˈkoʊkəˌnʌt/
  • Archaic
translation icon : coco

Examples

  • Right across from the Cocoanut Grove.

    Straight Time (1978)

  • Don't tell me Pan Am's working out of the Cocoanut Grove now?

    The Aviator (2004)

  • The Cocoanuts (1925) starred the Marx Brothers, and its filmed version became their first movie.

    Blog text (28)

  • The Boston Police Department has just released the transcripts of interviews with survivors of the Cocoanut Grove Fire, the Nov. 28, 1942, nightclub blaze in Boston that killed 492 people.

    Blog text (7)

  • SANTA CRUZ -- Actor Dick Van Dyke, visiting Santa Cruz for the first time, told stories from his long and successful show business career, entertaining 300 people at the Dominican Hospital Foundation Holidays d'Eleganz fundraiser at the Cocoanut Grove on Friday.

    Blog text (32)

  • She poured cocoanut milk into the curry for added flavor.

  • The cocoanut tree swayed gently in the tropical breeze.

  • He cracked open the cocoanut to enjoy the refreshing water inside.

Synonyms

nut
vscocoanut
337 1.0

A large hard seed with a shell that you can eat

is a specific kind with a fibrous husk and central liquid cavity
coconut
vscocoanut
78 1.0

A large hard fruit with a thick shell, white flesh and water inside

is the alternative spelling of that same fruit
coquito
vscocoanut
  • US
9.0

A small young coconut with soft flesh and sweet water

is the general mature fruit rather than the young, tender kind

Surface Forms

cocoanut singular
cocoanuts plural

Morphology

cocoanut = coconut (transparent) = coco + nut

This is an orthographic variant of the common compound 'coconut' (coco + nut); the relation to the base is direct and predictable.

Etymology

The word cocoanut comes from the Portuguese and Spanish word coco, which meant 'head' or 'a funny face' because the three dark spots on the shell looked like eyes and a mouth. English added nut because it is a large nut, so the name points to the hard, round tropical fruit with a hairy shell.