COHUNE NUT

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Meaning:

Nut of the cohune palm having hard white shells like those of ivory nuts

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Nouns denoting plants

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

seed (a small hard fruit)

Meronyms (substance of "cohune nut"):

cohune-nut oil; cohune fat; cohune oil (semisolid fat from nuts of the cohune palm; used in cooking and soap making)

Holonyms ("cohune nut" is a part of...):

cohune; cohune palm; Orbignya cohune (tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory)

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