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cohune
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cohune has 1 sense
- cohune(n = noun.plant) cohune palm, orbignya cohune - tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory; Array is a kind of feather palm
is a member of genus orbignya, orbignya
has parts: cohune nut
CIDE DICTIONARY
cohune, n. [Prob. fr. a native name in Honduras.].
A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm (Attalea cohune ), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a substitute for coconut oil. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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