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COCONUT PALM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coconut palm mean?
• COCONUT PALM (noun)
The noun COCONUT PALM has 1 sense:
1. tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
Familiarity information: COCONUT PALM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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 palm" 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 palm"):
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 palm" is a member of...):
Cocos; genus Cocos (coconut palms)
Context examples
The slides were slowed or halted by the coconut palm plantations.
(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)
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