Definitions for cocoanuts

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cocoanuts co·coa·nut

Spelling: [koh-kuh-nuht, -nuh t]

IPA: /ˈkoʊ kəˌnʌt, -nət/

Cocoanuts is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 298 anagrams from letters in cocoanuts (accnoostu).

Definitions for cocoanuts

noun

1. coconut.
2. the large, hard-shelled seed of the coconut palm, lined with a white edible meat, and containing a milky liquid.
3. the meat of the coconut, often shredded and used in cooking, as a flavoring, and as a dessert topping.
4. coconut palm.
5. Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a person of color, especially a person of Latin-American or South Asian origin or descent, who is regarded as having adopted the attitudes, values, and behavior thought to be characteristic of middle-class white society, at the expense of his or her ethnic heritage. Compare Oreo.

Origin of cocoanuts

First recorded in 1605-15; coco + nut

Examples for cocoanuts

Between these, covered over with cocoanut branches, lay a canoe.

The cocoanut is largely used for culinary purposes in the Islands.

He thought that, at last, he had reached the milk in the cocoanut.

He then breaks a cocoanut on a stone, a thing which only a Mahant may do.

It is lined with cocoanut matting and had taken no impression of any kind.

Each one of the cocoanut trees in our garden had for me a distinct personality.

If there is a Deshmukh3 of the village, a cocoanut and betel-leaf are also given to him.

cocoanut or chopped nuts, added while beating, makes a variety.

They let him think that the sticks and the cocoanut shell in the pot was the monkey.

There were about thirty cocoanut trees, but the fruit was of an inferior quality.