COPRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does copra mean? 

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

1. the dried meat of the coconut from which oil is extracted

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COPRA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The dried meat of the coconut from which oil is extracted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

coconut; coconut meat (the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries)

Holonyms ("copra" is a substance of...):

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)

 Context examples 

He would buy a schooner—one of those yacht- like, coppered crafts that sailed like witches—and go trading copra and pearling among the islands.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He would be away, in the South Seas, building his grass house, trading for pearls and copra, jumping reefs in frail outriggers, catching sharks and bonitas, hunting wild goats among the cliffs of the valley that lay next to the valley of Taiohae.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)