Cocoanut
['kəukə,nʌt]
Definition
(n.) The large, hard-shelled nut of the cocoa palm. It yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and in making oil.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Cocoanuts in dreams, warns you of fatalities in your expectations, as sly enemies are encroaching upon your rights in the guise of ardent friends. Dead cocoanut trees are a sign of loss and sorrow. The death of some one near you may follow.
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Examples
- A cocoanut shell always has a soft spot at one end because this is the provision nature has made to allow the embryo of the future tree to push its way out of the hard shell. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Another and cheaper product experimented with is the pith of the cornstalk, which is much lighter than the cocoanut fiber and serves the same purpose. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Next to the cocoanut tree, the date is unquestionably the most interesting and useful of the palm tribe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A kind of a sugar called jaggery is also obtained from the cocoanut juice. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Why is there Always a Soft Spot in a Cocoanut Shell? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Altogether the cocoanut palm will be seen to be a very useful member of the plant kingdom. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- On the Keeling or Cocos Islands the chief vegetable production is the cocoanut. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Flax, wool, silk, and cotton have been supplemented with the fibres of metal, of glass, of cocoanut, pine needles, ramie, wood-pulp, and of many other plants, leaves and grasses. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The tree which produces the cocoanut is a palm, from sixty to a hundred feet high. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is lined with cocoanut matting and had taken no impression of any kind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- To them we may add coir, obtained from the brush of the cocoanut, which has been long used in India, and has come into use in Europe in recent years. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The fibrous coat of the nut is made into a preparation called cellulose, which is described in another story in this book, and also into the well-known cocoanut matting. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She advanced along this corridor, leaving no traces upon the cocoanut matting. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It would at first be thought quite impossible for a crab to open a strong cocoanut covered with husk, but Mr. Liesk assures me that he has repeatedly seen this effected. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The professor's corridor is also lined with cocoanut matting. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Here Darwin observed crabs of monstrous size, with a structure which ena bled them to open the cocoanuts. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- When cocoanuts are picked, however, they have still another covering-an outer rind which has a smooth surface. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Cocoanuts, as most of us know, have a thick, hard shell, with three black scars at one end. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The fibrous husks of cocoanuts are prepared in such a way as to form cellulose, which is used for the protection of warships, preventing the inflow of water through shot holes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- How are Cocoanuts Used to Help Our Warships? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He is a creature of immense strength and climbs palm trees in order to pick, and break open, the cocoanuts. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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