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co·hune  (k-hn)

n.

A feather-leaved Central American palm (Orbignya cohune) having hard-shelled fruits that yield a useful oil.

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[New Latin, perhaps from American Spanish, from Mosquito ókhún.]

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cohune [kəʊˈhuːn]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a tropical American feather palm, Attalea (or Orbignya) cohune, whose large oily nuts yield an oil similar to coconut oil Also called cohune palm See also coquilla nut

[from American Spanish, from South American Indian ókhún]

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cohune - tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory cohune palm, Orbignya cohune feather palm - palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves genus Orbignya, Orbignya - palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm cohune nut - nut of the cohune palm having hard white shells like those of ivory nuts