coco

Coconut palm.

Noun

Coconut palm.
- I turn round and round to see the high mountains, the thick coco trees. - 1992, Frances Temple, Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti, page 52:
Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.
- They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber. - 1625, Samuel Purchas, “Their Cocos and other fruits...
- The coco is a very common fruit, and but little esteemed; […] - 1813, John Adams, “A Voyage to South America”, in John Pinkerton, editor, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All...
- You might opt for a heaping tower composed of fried oysters, coco-flavored shrimp, fried octopus, and calamari. - 2007, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's Caribbean 2008, →ISBN, page 468:

From Portuguese/Spanish coco (“grinning face”) (due to the three holes in the shell resembling a human face). Doublet of coque.