COCO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coco mean? 

• COCO (noun)
  The noun COCO has 1 sense:

1. tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics

  Familiarity information: COCO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

coco; coco palm; cocoa palm; coconut; coconut palm; coconut tree; Cocos nucifera

Hypernyms ("coco" is a kind of...):

palm; palm tree (any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves)

Meronyms (parts of "coco"):

cocoanut; coconut (large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk)

Holonyms ("coco" is a member of...):

Cocos; genus Cocos (coconut palms)

 Context examples 

The huge trees of the alluvial Amazonian plain gave place to the Phoenix and coco palms, growing in scattered clumps, with thick brushwood between.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)