Wiktionary
n. a tropical palm tree, ''Cocos nucifera'', having feathery leaves and bearing coconuts
WordNet
n. tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics [syn: coconut, coco palm, coco, cocoa palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera]
Usage examples of "coconut palm".
Surrounding the village were coconut palm trees, and beyond it, the phosphorescent surf.
Christian sat down, his back to the bole of a coconut palm and an arm about Maimiti's waist, while I reclined near by.
Here and there the slender bole of an old coconut palm rose high in the air.
I can climb a coconut palm and get me enough fresh milk to last a month&mdash.
The floor seemed to be made of the mid-ribs of some type of leaf, coconut palm, probably, laid across close-set joists, and there was no ceiling as such, just steep-angled rafters with thatch above.
Coconuts falling into the sea (as they often did, thanks to the palm's penchant for growing at the water's edge) floated for weeks and months, carried about by the currents, so that the wide distribution of the coconut palm was readily accounted for.
Tom Hauptman had set up an impromptu bar on a folding table under a coconut palm, and was passing out cold beer, margaritas, piñ.