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COCONUT TREE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics

Synonyms:

coco; coco palm; cocoa palm; coconut; coconut palm; coconut tree; Cocos nucifera

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("coconut tree" is a kind of...):

palm; palm tree (any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves)

Meronyms (parts of "coconut tree"):

cocoanut; coconut (large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk)

Holonyms ("coconut tree" is a member of...):

Cocos; genus Cocos (coconut palms)

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