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COCO DE MACAO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coco de macao mean? 

COCO DE MACAO (noun)
  The noun COCO DE MACAO has 1 sense:

1. tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivoryplay

  Familiarity information: COCO DE MACAO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COCO DE MACAO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

babassu; babassu palm; coco de macao; Orbignya martiana; Orbignya phalerata; Orbignya spesiosa

Hypernyms ("coco de macao" is a kind of...):

feather palm (palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves)

Meronyms (parts of "coco de macao"):

babassu nut (hard-shelled nut of the babassu palm)

Holonyms ("coco de macao" is a member of...):

genus Orbignya; Orbignya (palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm)


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