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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
coir
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Apparently both the tomatoes in the peat and those in the coir had been grown under exactly the same conditions.
▪ In just the same way, you simply can't use coir in exactly the same way as you would use peat.
▪ Marketed as blocks of pure coir or as loose compost mixed with additives to improve drainage.
▪ The coir is blended with a mix of nitrogen, phosphate and potassium fertilizers to form the new compost.
▪ The peat-substitute, known as coir, is now used in 95 percent of composts applied at Kew.
▪ Use composted bark or coir Keep well watered until well established.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coir

Coir \Coir\ (koir), n. [Tamil kayiru.]

  1. A material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut.
    --Homans.

  2. Cordage or cables, made of this material.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
coir

"prepared coconut fiber," 1580s, from Malayalam kayar "cord," from kayaru "to be twisted."

Wiktionary
coir

n. The fibre obtained from the husk of a coconut, used chiefly in making rope, matting and as a peat substitute.

WordNet
coir

n. stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut

Wikipedia
Cóir

Cóir ( Irish for "justice") was a social Catholic, conservative Eurosceptic lobby group established to campaign against the Treaty of Lisbon which was approved by referendum in Ireland on 2 October 2009. The group claimed to have had approximately 2,600 campaign volunteers for the 6 months prior to the referendum.

According to spokesman Brian Hickey, Cóir were considering registering as a political party. Hickey said he believed there was now room for a "patriotic, conservative and socially conscious party" to fill the "gap there in the Irish political spectrum".

Usage examples of "coir".

She loves the smell of everything- floor polish, fireplace, coir matting.

Like the Arab ships of yore, it was sewn togethernot by coir, as in the ancient seagoing vessels, but by thousands upon thousands of miles of rope made from monofilament fiber.

Vicky wrapped her naked lower body in a woollen sham ma and helped her settle comfortably on one of the thin coir mattresses spread on the floor of the car.

For the maintenance of the wagons there were two drums of tar to be mixed with animal fat to grease the wheel hubs, heavy coils of rawhide trek ropes, ri ems and straps, yokes and yoke-pins, lynch-pins for the wheel hubs, rolls of canvas and coir matting to repair the tents.

She loves the smell of everything floor polish, fireplace, coir matting.

Like the Arab ships of yore, it was sewn togethernot by coir, as in the ancient seagoing vessels, but by thousands upon thousands of miles of rope made from monofilament fiber.

I remember all at once the nurses' rooms, the mattings of coir, a piece of text on the limewashed wall: My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me.

I had combed out the plaits and stitches from my hair and it stood up like coir, and I had no hat, so put a handkerchief of Charles's about my head.

The gangplank creaked and the ship rubbed her bumpers of coir matting against the quay as Cashel's weight shifted it.