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coco

coconut or coconut palm

Not to be confused with:

coca – a South American tree with leaves that contain cocaine

cocoa – powder made from cacao seeds, a hot drink made from cocoa powder and milk

Co·co

(kō′kō)

A river rising in northern Nicaragua and flowing about 485 km (300 mi) northeast along the Nicaragua-Honduras border to the Caribbean Sea.

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coco

(ˈkəʊkəʊ)

n, pl -cos

(Plants) short for coconut, coconut palm

[C16: from Portuguese coco grimace; from the likeness of the three holes of the nut to a face]

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co•co

(ˈkoʊ koʊ)

n., pl. -cos.

1. coconut palm.

2. coconut (def. 1).

[1545–55; < Portuguese: grimace]

Co•co

(ˈkoʊ koʊ)

n.

a river rising in N Nicaragua and flowing NE along the Nicaragua-Honduras border to the Caribbean Sea. ab. 300 mi. (485 km) long. Also called Segovia.

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Noun

coco - tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics

coco palm, cocoa palm, coconut palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera, coconut

cocoanut, coconut - large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk

palm tree, palm - any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves

Cocos, genus Cocos - coconut palms

Translations

coco

кокос кокосовая пальма

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Finally, he poured a few drops of the coco into a test tube, sealing it up carefully.

"Then, between 7.15 and 8 o'clock, the coco was standing on the table in the left wing?"

But I was in a hurry, because Dorcas was out, and I thought maybe the coco itself was all right, and the salt had only gone on the tray.

"Why, that it was the coco and not the coffee that was poisoned.

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