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Definition of Cohune
1. Noun. Tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory.
Generic synonyms: Feather Palm
Group relationships: Genus Orbignya, Orbignya
Terms within: Cohune Nut
Definition of Cohune
1. n. A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm (Attalea cohune), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a substitute for coconut oil.
Definition of Cohune
1. Noun. A species of palm, ''Orbignya cohune'', native to South America, producing large nuts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cohune
1. a palm tree [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cohune
Literary usage of Cohune
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fatty Foods: Their Practical Examination. A Handbook for the Use of by Edward Richards Bolton, Cecil Revis (1913)
"Attalea cohune (the cohune Palm of Honduras, Guatemala, Brazil and Guiana).
The fruit (as shown in sketch) varies considerably in ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"... G.; huile de cohune, F.), from Attalea cohune, Mart., or the cohune palm.
Large forests of this palm are found in the British Honduras. ..."
3. The Colony of British Honduras: Its Resources and Prospects, with Particular by Sir Daniel Morris (1883)
"Factory for extracting oil from cohune-nuts. Old saw-mills. Labour for sugar
estates. Wages. Journey up Sittee River. Scenery and vegetation. ..."
4. The Condensed Chemical Dictionary: A Reference Volume for All Requiring by Francis Mills Turner, Daniel Deronda Berolzheimer, William Parker Cutter, John Helfrich, Chemical Catalog Company, Inc (1920)
"cohune-nut Oil. See cohune oil. ... cohune Oil* (cohune-nut oil; Cahoun- nut oil;
... Derivation: From the cohune-nut, At- talea cohune, by expression. ..."
5. How America Went to War: An Account from Official Sources of the Nation's by Benedict Crowell, Robert Forrest Wilson (1921)
"The best of these was found to be the cohune or corozo nut. ... cohune nuts grow
principally on the west coast of Central America in low, swampy regions ..."
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