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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cocoa palm has 1 sense
- cocoa palm(n = noun.plant) coco, coco palm, coconut, coconut palm, coconut tree, cocos nucifera - tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics; has parts: cocoanut, coconut
is a kind of palm, palm tree
is a member of cocos, genus cocos
CIDE DICTIONARY
cocoa palm, n. [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.].
A tall palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera ) as its fruit. 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. It is widely planted throughout the tropics, and in some locations as an ornamental tree. [1913 Webster]