Definition of Cocos nucifera

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

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocos Nucifera

Cockcroft and Walton accelerator
Cockcroft and Walton voltage multiplier
Cockerney
Cockett communicating perforating veins
Cockney
Cockney rhyming slang
Cockneydom
Cockneyish
Cockneys
Cocoa
Cocoliche
Cocopa
Cocopah
Cocos
Cocos Islander
Cocos nucifera
Cocteau
Cocus
Cocytus
Codariocalyx
Codariocalyx motorius
Codegua
Codex medicamentarius
Codiaeum
Codiaeum variegatum
Codies
Codman's sign
Codman's triangle
Codman's tumour
Cody

Literary usage of Cocos nucifera

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

1. Food: Some Account of Its Sources, Constituents and Uses by Arthur Herbert Church (1876)
"The nut of the cocos nucifera, commonly called cocoa- nut, ... (cocos nucifera.) The lofty and most useful tree which yields the coco-nut is a palm, ..."

2. Origin of Cultivated Plants by Alphonse de Candolle (1886)
"The force of this argument is somewhat diminished by the circumstance that Cocos nucifera is a tree which grows on the littoral and in damp places, ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1867)
"as being a product of the theobroma, but gives the name of cocoa butter to that from the cocos nucifera. The following, therefore, should be remembered: . ..."

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