coconut — ozdic

Collocations

9

1

(noun.)

ADJ

dessicated, fresh

QUANT

bunch

The farmer harvested several bunches of coconuts from the trees near the beach.

VERB + COCONUT

eat, have | grow | harvest, pick

break open, open

He opened the coconut with a machete to get the fresh milk inside.

COCONUT + NOUN

milk, oil

palm, tree

My grandmother planted a coconut tree in her garden thirty years ago and it still produces fruit.

fibre, husk, matting, shell

Definitions

noun

1

A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.

The Coco-nut Trees grow by the Sea, on the Weſtern ſide in great Groves, 3 or 4 Miles in length, and a Mile or two broad. This tree is in ſhape like the Cabbage-tree, and at a diſtance they are not to be known each from other, only the Coco-nut Tree is fuller of Branches ; but the Cabbage-tree generally is much higher, tho' the Coco-nut Trees in ſome places are very high.

2

A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.

3

The edible white flesh of this fruit.

4

The coconut palm.

5

A member of any of various dark-skinned ethnic groups (e.g. Hispanic, South Asian, or black) who is considered to have overly assimilated to white culture:

After that I was regarded as comic. I became a ‘coconut’—someone brown on the outside, white on the inside. I was the bleached academic—more white than the anglo professors. In my classes several students glared at me, clearly seeing in me the person they feared ever becoming. Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization?

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing t

cocoanut

noun — tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits

coco

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

6

01

The Coco-nut Trees grow by the Sea, on the Weſtern ſide in great Groves, 3 or 4 Miles in length, and a Mile or two broad. This tree is in ſhape like the Cabbage-tree, and at a diſtance they are not to

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02

After that I was regarded as comic. I became a ‘coconut’—someone brown on the outside, white on the inside. I was the bleached academic—more white than the anglo professors. In my classes several stud

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03

Their convictions challenged those critics who dismissed John Githongo’s anti-corruption efforts as the naïve projection of inappropriate ‘mzungu’ values onto an African nation where they were doomed

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04

The drinks were served in coconut shells.

Tatoeba · #27113

05

In order to get the coconut milk, you must first crack the coconut open.

Tatoeba · #61855

06

You are my new sweet coconut.

Tatoeba · #803839

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, coconut is marked as derogatory, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.