cohune

or cohune palm

[ koh-hoon ]

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noun

a pinnate-leaved palm, Orbignya cohune, native to Central America, bearing large nuts whose meat yields an oil resembling that of the coconut.

cohune

/ kəʊˈhuːn /

a tropical American feather palm, Attalea (or Orbignya ) cohune, whose large oily nuts yield an oil similar to coconut oil Also calledcohune palm See also coquilla nut

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Origin of cohune¹

First recorded in 1795–1805; from New Latin, from Latin American Spanish, from Miskito ókhún, óchún, uchún

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Origin of cohune¹

C19: from American Spanish, from South American Indian ókhún

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Through the gathering shadows he thought he saw directly beneath him the wide spreading leaves of a young cohune-nut tree.

A gentle breeze, entering the hut through its lattice-like walls of cohune-nut stems, fluttered the corners of the bills.

We were importing cohune nuts at the rate of 4,000 tons per month at the time of the armistice.

Cohune-nut oil is produced from the nuts of the cohune palm, which flourishes in British Honduras.

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