Coco

//ˈkəʊ.kəʊ// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Coconut palm.

    "I turn round and round to see the high mountains, the thick coco trees."

  2. 2
    Abbreviation of contingent convertible bond. abbreviation, alt-of
  3. 3
    tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics wordnet
  4. 4
    Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.

    "They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A female given name. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A surname from Sicilian. countable, uncountable

Synonyms

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coco bondcoco palmcocoa palmcoconutcoconutcoconut palm

Example

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"For that reason Coco was, to me, 'an older sister I can play with' and I thought of her only as one member of the family not as someone I should question my father concerning her identity."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Portuguese/Spanish coco (“grinning face”) (due to the three holes in the shell resembling a human face). Doublet of coque.

Etymology 2

From the Italian Coco, a surname derived from Sicilian cocu (“cook”).

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