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COHUNE NUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cohune nut mean?
• COHUNE NUT (noun)
The noun COHUNE NUT has 1 sense:
1. nut of the cohune palm having hard white shells like those of ivory nuts
Familiarity information: COHUNE NUT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Nut of the cohune palm having hard white shells like those of ivory nuts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("cohune nut" is a kind of...):
seed (a small hard fruit)
Meronyms (substance of "cohune nut"):
cohune-nut oil; cohune fat; cohune oil (semisolid fat from nuts of the cohune palm; used in cooking and soap making)
Holonyms ("cohune nut" is a part of...):
cohune; cohune palm; Orbignya cohune (tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory)
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