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Definition of Cocos nucifera
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 Cocos Nucifera
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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