coconut
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Etymology[edit]
Ivory Coastian coconut.
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coconut (countable and uncountable; plural coconuts)
- A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
- A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
- (uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.
- The coconut palm.
- (pejorative, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or dark-skinned person who acts “white” (Caucasian), alluding to the fact that a coconut is brown on the outside and white on the inside. Compare banana (“East Asian who acts white”).
- (South Africa, pejorative) A black person who thinks "white" (European). Compare banana (“East Asian who acts white”).
- (New Zealand, pejorative) A Pacific islander.
- (slang) A female breast.
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Translations[edit]
fruit of coco palm
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shelled seed
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edible flesh of coconut seed
coconut palm — see coconut palm
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