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Definition of Cocus
1. Noun. (Greek mythology) one of the Titans.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocus
Literary usage of Cocus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Register of Walter Giffard, Lord Archbishop of York, 1266-1279 by William Brown, Catholic Church Province of York (England). Archbishop (1266-1279 : Walter Giffard) (1904)
"Cock', Cok', cocus, Kok, Alice, 325 ; John, 196; Roger, 327 ; Thomas, 69, 170
Codnor, ... cocus ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"They likewise breake the cocus in pieces, and taking off the shell they dry the
fruit or ... This dried cocus which is so carried abroad, is called Copra. ..."
3. The First Three English Books on America ?1511-1555 A. D..: Being Chiefly by Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, Richard Eden, Sebastian Münster (1885)
"Whyle this cocus is yet freihe and newly taken from the tree, ... cocus. 194 I
haue seene one of these fruités opened, the whiche when it was hole, ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"They likewise breake the cocus in pieces, and taking off the shell they dry the
fruit or ... This dried cocus which is so carried abroad, is called Copra. ..."
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