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• coco
  coco

  noun

  coconut palm.
• Coco
  Coco

  noun

  a river rising in N Nicaragua and flowing NE along the Nicaragua-Honduras border to the Caribbean Sea. About 300 miles (485 km) long.

coco

¹ American  

[koh-koh] / ˈkoʊ koʊ /

noun

cocos plural

1. coconut palm.

2. coconut.

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Coco ² American  

[koh-koh, kaw-kaw] / ˈkoʊ koʊ, ˈkɔ kɔ /

noun

1. a river rising in N Nicaragua and flowing NE along the Nicaragua-Honduras border to the Caribbean Sea. About 300 miles (485 km) long.

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coco British  

/ ˈkəʊkəʊ /

noun

1. short for coconut coconut palm

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Inflected Forms

noun

• cocos
  plural

Etymology

Origin of coco

1545–55; < Portuguese: grimace; the three holes at the nut's base give it this appearance

Example Sentences

And as soon as the sun rises, there should be mangoes waiting for them underneath the coco tree.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2023

But pots and imported coco coir on their own did not solve the challenge of introducing a northern hemisphere fruit into Peru's hot and arid coastal region.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2023

It's just basically putting condensed milk and usually just some cream-based type of milky liquid, and also just all these canned cocktail fruit, just the jellies that we were talking about, nata de coco.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2023

I wanted coconut drops, a spicy beef patty with coco bread, kola champagne, and some bun and cheese for later.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2022

Tuti looked at the reservation book and made a face like she’d just witnessed a flan de coco slip off her plate and splatter onto the floor.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya