cocoa palm

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cocoa palm - tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics

coco, coco 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

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By New Year's Eve, dozens of volunteers will have brushed, cut, chopped and glued hundreds of pounds of cocoa palm fiber, yellow strawflower, orchids, mums, roses and other blossoms for ``Dinner's on .

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We set out directly for Antetezambato from Nosy Komba, a paradisaical island overgrown by cocoa palms and surrounded by bright blue ocean and coral reefs.

When we awoke the next day and gazed dreamily from the windows over the cocoa palms and blue water, the "Antetezambato world" seemed very far away.