Definition of Cocoa palm

1. Noun. Tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics.

Exact synonyms: Coco, Coco Palm, Coconut, Coconut Palm, Coconut Tree, Cocos Nucifera
Terms within: Cocoanut, Coconut
Generic synonyms: Palm, Palm Tree
Group relationships: Cocos, Genus Cocos

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocoa Palm

cocky's joy
cocky-leeky
coclique
coclustering
coco
coco-de-mer
coco de macao
coco palm
coco plum
coco plum tree
cocoa
cocoa bean
cocoa beans
cocoa palm (current term)
cocoa plum
cocoa powder
cocoalike
cocoanut
cocoanuts
cocoas
cocobola
cocobolas
cocobolo
cocobolos
cocolonization
cocomat
cocomats
cocommutative

Literary usage of Cocoa palm

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Illustrated Magazine of Art (1854)
"In regions where the cocoa-palm grows, this property of the fibre of its husk has been known to the natives from time immemorial ; but amongst ourselves the ..."

2. Thayer Expedition by Charles Frederick Hartt (1870)
"... of the Island, cocoa palm Groves, &c. — Fernando de Noronha. — Darwin's Description of the Geology of the Island. ..."

3. Life and Nature Under the Tropics; Or, Sketches of Travels Among the Andes by Henry Morris Myers, Philip Van Ness Myers (1871)
"Cow-Tree."—Thermal Springs.—Discomforts of Life at a Hacienda.—Cocoa-Palm.—Mangroves.—Puerto Cabello. WHILE at Valencia, we made the acquaintance of Mr. ..."

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