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Cocoanut

noun
1.
Large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk.  Synonym: coconut.






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"Cocoanut" Quotes from Famous Books



... feathery foliage of the cocoanut palms could be made out, and the old sailor judged it time to take to ...
— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... the cocoanut palms at the lake's edge and watched the lagoon where thousands of coloured lanterns moved on crafts, invisible except when revealed in the glare ...
— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers

... she started briskly for home, following the broken line of kelp and weeds, grasses, driftwood, and cocoanut shells that fringed the tide-mark, and rather fascinated by the sudden ominous change in sea and sky. In the little village there was great clapping of shutters and straining of clotheslines, distracted, bareheaded women ran about ...
— The Heart of Rachael • Kathleen Norris

... land, I said, Where the skies are always blue, Where on chocolate drops are the children fed, And cocoanut cookies, too; Where puppy dogs romp at the children's feet, And the liveliest kittens play, And little tin soldiers guard the street ...
— Just Folks • Edgar A. Guest

... more," she said, "I like to hear you talk, Funnyface. Funny old ears. Funny old cocoanut with, oh, such a lot of milk in it. You do think a lot of thinky thoughts, don't you. And you put them all down in those dear ...
— If Winter Don't - A B C D E F Notsomuchinson • Barry Pain


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