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Definition of Cocoa palm
1. Noun. Tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics.
Terms within: Cocoanut, Coconut
Generic synonyms: Palm, Palm Tree
Group relationships: Cocos, Genus Cocos
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocoa Palm
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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