cocovore

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From coco(nut) +‎ -vore.

Noun[edit]

cocovore (plural cocovores)

  1. (rare) An eater of coconuts; someone subsisting primarily on coconut.
    • 2014, Adrian McKinty, The Sun is God:
      Fraulein Schwab was German, a nudist, a Cocovore, but undoubtedly a well-born lady.
    • 2015, Christian Kracht, translated by Daniel Bowles, Imperium, Picador, published 2016, page 10:
      August Engelhardt's most fervent wish, his destiny in fact, was to establish a colony of cocovores.
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