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Tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
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cohune
Word definitions for cohune in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cohune \Co*hune"\, n., or Cohune palm \Cohune palm\ . [Prob. fr. a native name in Honduras.] A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm ( Attalea cohune ), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory [syn: cohune palm , Orbignya cohune ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A species of palm, (taxlink Attalea cohune species noshow=1), native to South America, producing large nuts.
Usage examples of cohune.
Both the cohune palm and the boton palm begin as clusters of huge leaves sprouting from the ground, but they grow impressive trunks if the surrounding forest is thick enough to require them to do so to reach the light.
There were those too—Jonathan got some lovely pictures of palms on the beach at San Pedro—but when one views Lamanai from the river, one sees an expanse of broad cohune palm fronds with only occasional other admixtures.