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cohune fat

cohune fat

9.9
A thick fat from the nuts of a palm used for cooking and making soap
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : grasa de cohune
  • Soap makers favor cohune fat for its creamy texture and natural moisturizing properties.

Examples

  • The chef used cohune fat as a substitute for lard in the traditional recipe.

  • Villagers harvested the palm nuts to extract cohune fat for cooking.

  • I bought some cohune fat for my cooking.

  • The chef prefers using cohune fat in his recipes.

  • Soap makers favor cohune fat for its creamy texture and natural moisturizing properties.

  • The chef used cohune fat as a substitute for lard in the traditional recipe.

  • Villagers harvested the palm nuts to extract cohune fat for cooking.

Synonyms

cocoa butter
vscohune fat
3 3.1

A pale yellow fat from cocoa beans used to make chocolate and skin creams

is used more for cooking and soap making than for chocolate or cosmetics
shea butter
vscohune fat
1 3.4

A soft cream-like fat made from the nut of an African tree used on skin and in cooking

is used more for cooking and soap making than for skin care
goose grease
vscohune fat
1 7.5

Fat from geese that people use in cooking and rub on the skin as a simple medicine

comes from a plant nut rather than from animals
cohune oil
vscohune fat
  • Specialized
9.9

A thick fat that comes from cohune palm nuts used for cooking and soap

is the same substance but uses fat in the name rather than oil
cohune-nut oil
vscohune fat
  • US
9.9

A thick cooking oil from the nuts of a cohune palm that people also use to make soap

is the same substance but the name highlights the nut source

Surface Forms

cohune fat singular
cohune fats plural

Morphology

cohune + fat

This is a straightforward compositional noun–noun phrase: 'cohune' names the source (a palm) and 'fat' names the substance, so the meaning is 'fat derived from the cohune palm'. Source+material compounds are regular across languages and follow normal English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer this meaning.

Etymology

The name cohune fat comes from making fat from the cohune palm's nuts: imagine cracking hard round nuts, boiling them, and collecting the creamy, thick fat. So, cohune fat means 'a thick fat made from the nuts of the cohune palm' and is used for cooking and soap.