COCONUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coconut mean? 

• COCONUT (noun)
  The noun COCONUT has 3 senses:

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

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

3. tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics

  Familiarity information: COCONUT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCONUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

coconut; coconut meat

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

food; solid food (any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coconut"):

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

Holonyms ("coconut" is a substance of...):

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

Sense 2

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 ("coconut" 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 "coconut"):

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 ("coconut" 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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

coco; coco palm; cocoa palm; coconut; coconut palm; coconut tree; Cocos nucifera

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

palm; palm tree (any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves)

Meronyms (parts of "coconut"):

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

Holonyms ("coconut" is a member of...):

Cocos; genus Cocos (coconut palms)

 Context examples 

In addition to its use as a food ingredient and cooking oil, coconut oil is commonly used in skincare preparations and soaps.

(Coconut Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Lauric acid is found naturally in various plant and animal fats and oils, and is a major component of coconut oil and palm kernel oil.

(Lauric Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

DEET was only 50 percent effective against stable flies, while the coconut oil compound was more than 95 percent effective.

(Coconut Oil Compounds Repel Insects Better than DEET, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles coconut.

(Coconut Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

A nutritional lipid emulsion consisting of both coconut oil-derived medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) and soybean oil-derived long chain triglycerides (LCTs).

(MCT/LCT Lipid Emulsion, NCI Thesaurus)

The slides were slowed or halted by the coconut palm plantations.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

Octanoic acid is found naturally in the milk of various mammals and is a minor component of coconut oil and palm kernel oil.

(Octanoic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Myristic acid is found naturally in palm oil, coconut oil and butter fat.

(Myristic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

A nutritional lipid emulsion consisting of coconut oil-derived medium chain triglycerides (MCTs), soybean oil-derived long chain triglycerides (LCT), and the fish oil-derived polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids.

(MCT/LCT/Fish Oil Omega-3 Fatty Acid Lipid Emulsion, NCI Thesaurus)

Capric acid is found naturally in the coconut and palm kernel oils as well as the milk of various mammals.

(Capric Acid, NCI Thesaurus)