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cohune palm
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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noun
see 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.