coconut

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[edit] English

Beached coconut

[edit] Noun

Singular
coconut

Plural
coconuts

coconut (plural coconuts)

  1. The fruit of the coconut palm, Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
  2. The 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. (pejorative) A Hispanic person who acts “white” (Caucasian), alluding to the fact that a coconut is brown on the outside and white on the inside.
  6. (South African, pejorative) A black person who thinks "white" (European).
  7. (New Zealand, pejorative) A Pacific islander.

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[edit] Translations

fruit of coco palm
shelled seed
edible flesh of coconut seed
coconut palm
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