COCOANUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cocoanut mean? 

• COCOANUT (noun)
  The noun COCOANUT has 1 sense:

1. large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk

  Familiarity information: COCOANUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCOANUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

cocoanut; coconut

Hypernyms ("cocoanut" is a kind of...):

edible nut (a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell)

Meronyms (substance of "cocoanut"):

coconut oil; copra oil (oil from coconuts)

coconut; coconut meat (the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries)

coconut milk; coconut water (clear to whitish fluid from within a fresh coconut)

copra (the dried meat of the coconut from which oil is extracted)

Holonyms ("cocoanut" is a part of...):

coco; coco palm; cocoa palm; coconut; coconut palm; coconut tree; Cocos nucifera (tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics)

 Context examples 

It is lined with cocoanut matting and had taken no impression of any kind.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He lay on a coral beach where the cocoanuts grew down to the mellow-sounding surf.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The professor’s corridor is also lined with cocoanut matting.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She advanced along this corridor, leaving no traces upon the cocoanut matting.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She ran down a corridor, which she imagined to be that by which she had come—both were lined with cocoanut matting—and it was only when it was too late that she understood that she had taken the wrong passage, and that her retreat was cut off behind her.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)