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    COHUNE PALM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    cohune; cohune palm; Orbignya cohune

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    Nouns denoting plants

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

    feather palm (palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves)

    Meronyms (parts of "cohune palm"):

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

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

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

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