Coco

Co·co  (kk)

A river rising in northern Nicaragua and flowing about 483 km (300 mi) northeast along the Nicaragua-Honduras border to the Caribbean Sea.

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coco [ˈkəʊkəʊ]

n pl -cos

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) short for coconut, coconut palm

[from Portuguese coco grimace; from the likeness of the three holes of the nut to a face]

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coco - tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics coco palm, cocoa palm, coconut palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera, coconut 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 palm tree, palm - any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves Cocos, genus Cocos - coconut palms