noun
tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
• Syn: ↑Orbignya cohune, ↑cohune
• Hypernyms: ↑feather palm
• Member Holonyms: ↑Orbignya, ↑genus Orbignya
• Part Meronyms: ↑cohune nut
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nounsee cohune
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co|hune «koh HOON», noun, or cohune palm,
a Central American palm bearing large nuts whose shells are made into ornaments and whose meat yields an oil resembling coconut oil.
╂[< American Spanish cohune < an American Indian word]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.