coconut

noun

• 1the large oval brown seed of a tropical palm, consisting of a hard woody husk surrounded by fibre, lined with edible white flesh and containing a clear liquid: [as modifier]:coconut shells [mass noun]:gardens produced vegetables, coconut, and pineapples
• [mass noun] the flesh of a coconut, often used as food: desiccated coconut [as modifier]:coconut ice cream

• 2 (also coconut palm or tree) the tall palm tree that yields the coconut, which has become naturalized throughout the tropics. The tree is also a source of copra, coir, and other products: warm tropical breezes, coconut trees, and magnificent beaches [as modifier]:coconut plantations

  • Cocos nucifera, family Palmae