COCOS NUCIFERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cocos nucifera mean? 

• COCOS NUCIFERA (noun)
  The noun COCOS NUCIFERA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: COCOS NUCIFERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCOS NUCIFERA (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 ("Cocos nucifera" 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 "Cocos nucifera"):

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 ("Cocos nucifera" is a member of...):

Cocos; genus Cocos (coconut palms)

 Context examples 

The edible oil extracted from the kernel or meat of the coconut of Cocos nucifera.

(Coconut Oil, NCI Thesaurus)