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COHUNE PALM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cohune palm mean?
• COHUNE PALM (noun)
The noun COHUNE PALM has 1 sense:
1. tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
Familiarity information: COHUNE PALM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
cohune; cohune palm; Orbignya cohune
Hypernyms ("cohune palm" is a kind of...):
feather palm (palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves)
Meronyms (parts of "cohune palm"):
cohune nut (nut of the cohune palm having hard white shells like those of ivory nuts)
Holonyms ("cohune palm" is a member of...):
genus Orbignya; Orbignya (palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm)
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