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COHUNE

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Meaning:

Tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory

Synonyms:

cohune; cohune palm; Orbignya cohune

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cohune" is a kind of...):

feather palm (palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves)

Meronyms (parts of "cohune"):

cohune nut (nut of the cohune palm having hard white shells like those of ivory nuts)

Holonyms ("cohune" is a member of...):

genus Orbignya; Orbignya (palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm)

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