Copra

Definition: Copra

Copra

Noun

1. The dried meat of the coconut from which oil is extracted.

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

Date "copra" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Food & Agriculture

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

Synonym: Copra

Crosswords: Copra

Albanian (riband, ribbons, shatter, smithereens, snippets, tatters), French (copra), Italian (copra), Portuguese (copra), Spanish (copra).

Books

• Coconut and copra production in the Pacific Islands (reference)

• On Copra Ships and Coral Isles (Ulverscroft Large Print Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

• Small-Scale Oil Extraction from Groundnuts and Copra (reference)

• The marketing of cocoa and copra in Papua New Guinea : with case studies of East New Britain and East and West Sepik (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Copra workers homes. Credit: Small World.

Copra drying shed on shore of Truk Lagoon. Credit: Small World.

First mate of the WESTWARD viewing copra drying operation. Credit: Small World.

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

Economic History

Kiribati

Industry: Types--tourism, copra, fish. (references)

Sao Tome and Principe

Other export crops include copra, palm kernels, and coffee. (references)

Marshall Islands

Copra cake and oil are by far the nation's largest exports. (references)

Political Economy

Marshall Islands

Coconut oil and copra exports, a small amount of tourism, import and income taxes, an open ship registry, a tuna preparation plant (locally referred to as tuna loining), ship chandelling, and fishing licensing fees generate limited revenues. (references)

Solomon Islands

Commercial export activities, which included some plantation production of copra, cocoa, and palm oil, a fish cannery, a gold mine on Guadalcanal, and small resort and diving enterprises, have ceased to operate; only the logging industry continued to operate, albeit at a reduced level. (references)

Vanuatu

The civilian authorities control the small police force and its paramilitary wing, the Vanuatu Mobile Force (VMF). The police commissioner commands the entire force, including the VMF. Subsistence farming and fishing are the principal livelihood for more than 80 percent of the population of approximately 193,000. There is also some production of cash crops including copra and cocoa, as well as cattle farming. (references)

Trade

Indonesia

Many of the restrictions and taxes placed on exports affect agricultural products, including major cash crops like rubber, palm oil, coffee, and copra. (references)

Worker Rights

Fiji

There were no further reports that a form of bonded labor may be practiced on a copra plantation on an outer island. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "copra": cakes from copra ♦ copra itch ♦ copra oil. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

сушени ядки от кокосов орех, копра. (various references)

Chinese 

干椰肉. (various references)

Czech

kopra. (various references)

Danish

kopra. (various references)

Dutch

kopra. (various references)

Farsi 

مغزنارگیل . (various references)

Finnish

kopra. (various references)

French

copra. (various references)

German

Kopra. (various references)

Greek 

coprah, ξηρά κοκοκάρυδα. (various references)

Hungarian

kopra. (various references)

Indonesian

kopra. (various references)

Italian

copra. (various references)

Manx

coprey. (various references)

Pig Latin

opracay

Portuguese

copra. (various references)

Russian 

копра. (various references)

Spanish

copra. (various references)

Swedish

kopra. (various references)

Thai

เนื้อมะพร้าวแห้ง (สำหรับทำน้ำมันมะพร้าว). (various references)

Turkish

kurutulmuş hindistancevizi içi. (various references)

Ukrainian

копра. (various references)

Vietnamese 

cùi dừa khô. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "copra": coprah, coprahs, copras. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Copra" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cajra, capro, Ccpa, Cdpa, cepa, Cepba, Cepsa, cifra, cipro, coera, compr, coora, coori, copa, copam, copaw, copay, copea, copia, coppr, copr, Coprefa, copro, Copsa, copta, Corah, corpa, Corpak, Corra, Coupar, Cpga, cpr, Culra, cupa, cupra, cupri, Cyprea, cypri, Dopra, Koporo, kopra, Ncopa, norpa, Ocora, Ofpra, opra, Orpa, scopare, Topra. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: arco, capo, carp, crap, crop, orca, prao, proa.

-2 letters: arc, cap, car, cop, cor, oar, oca, ora, orc, pac, par, pro, rap, roc.

-3 letters: ar, op, or, pa.

+1 letter: captor, carhop, cartop, coppra, coprah, copras, picaro.

+2 letters: apocarp, apricot, aprotic, caltrop, camphor, caporal, caprock, captors, carhops, carpool, carport, charpoy, compare, compart, coppras, coprahs, copular, corpora, crampon, exocarp, parodic, parotic, picador, picaros, poacher, pochard, procarp, prosaic.

+3 letters: acarpous, acceptor, apocarps, apocarpy, apocrine, approach, apricots, ascocarp, atrophic, backdrop, calthrop, caltrops, camphors, camporee, canephor, capework, caponier, caporals, capriole, caprocks, capsomer, carpools, carports, chaperon, charpoys, coappear, compadre, compared, comparer, compares, comparts, coparent, copastor, copatron, coplanar, copperah, copperas, copremia, copyread, corporal, corpsman, crackpot, crampons, crampoon, cropland, cupboard, endocarp, exocarps, impactor, mercapto, mesocarp, monocarp, operatic, opercula, orphical, outcaper, parachor, paranoic, parfocal, parsonic, pectoral, picadors, picaroon, picloram, picogram, piscator, poachers, poachier, pochards, pockmark, podagric, podocarp, portance, postcard, postrace, procaine, procarps, prochain, proclaim, procural, protatic, protract, reproach, saprobic, scorepad, sporadic, traprock, tropical, xylocarp.