Cocoanut

Definition: Cocoanut

Cocoanut

Noun

1. Large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cocoanut" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Cocoanut

Crosswords: Cocoanut

Cocoanut Grove (1938)

Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (1934)

Cocoanut Fair (1897)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Cocoanut !! Grove--the guide : the definitive, practical, tongue-in-cheek, sometimes whimsical, but totally unbiased, guide to Miami's Coconut Grove, the village with a soul, the American Left Bank (reference)

• Cocoanut Grove (reference)

• Fire in Boston's Cocoanut Grove (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Lee Ritenour and Friends - Live from the Cocoanut Grove - Vols. 1 & 2 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Echoes from the Cocoanut Grove (reference)

• The Horrible Cocoanut Grove Disaster (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Cocoanut trees, showing fruit, Jamaica. Credit: Library of Congress.

Husking the crop in a cocoanut [sic] forest, near Mayaguez, Porto Rico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cocoanut palms and wild bananas, Jamaica, W.I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Porto Rico cocoanut grove. Credit: Library of Congress.

Royal and cocoanut palms. Credit: Library of Congress.

Biscayne Bay, through the cocoanut trees, Miami, Fla. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cocoanut trees along the docks, Miami, Fla. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cocoanut Grove [House], Lake Worth. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "cocoanut": cocoanut oil ♦ cocoanut shy. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

кратуна (calabash, cucurbit, gourd, nob, noddle, nut, think tank), кокосов орех (coconut). (various references)

Dutch

kokosnoot (cocoa-nut, coconut, coco-nut), klappernoot (cocoa-nut, coconut, coco-nut), klapper (cocoa-nut, coconut, coco-nut). (various references)

Esperanto

kokoso (cocoa-nut, coconut, coco-nut), kokosnukso (cocoa-nut, coconut, coco-nut). (various references)

Greek 

κοκοκάρυδο. (various references)

Pig Latin

ocoanutcay.(various references)

Russian 

кокосовый орех (coconut), башка (nob, noddle, noggin, noodlehead, thinking mug, think-tank, tupenny). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kakao plod. (various references)

Spanish

coco (bogeyman, brain, bugaboo, bugbear, coconut), fruta de coco (coconut), de coco (coconut). (various references)

Swahili

nazi (cocoa-nut, coconut, coco-nut), dafu (cocoa-nut, coconut, coco-nut). (various references)

Swedish

kokosnöt (coconut). (various references)

Ukrainian

кокосовий (coconut), кокос (coconut). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cocoanut": cocoanuts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cocoanut" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cocanut, Cocciante. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: account, coconut.

-2 letters: toucan.

-3 letters: canto, coact, cocoa, conto, cotan, count, octan.

-4 letters: aunt, auto, cant, coat, coca, coco, coon, coot, nota, onto, taco, toon, tuna, unco, unto.

-5 letters: act, ant, can, cat, con, coo, cot, cut, noo, not, nut, oat, oca, oot, out, tan, tao, tau, ton, too, tun, uta.

+1 letter: cocoanuts.

+2 letters: occupation.

+3 letters: coeducation, coruscation, occultation, occupations, outcoaching, pococurante.

+4 letters: coeducations, communicator, conductorial, contumacious, coruscations, flocculation, occultations, occupational, reoccupation.

+5 letters: accustomation, carcinomatous, cocultivation, coeducational, communication, communicators, communicatory, conjunctional, counteraction, flocculations, mucocutaneous, nonconceptual, pococurantism, preoccupation, reoccupations, subcontractor.