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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory;
[syn: cohune palm, Orbignya cohune, cohune]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cohune \Co*hune"\, n., or Cohune palm \Cohune palm\ . [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.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cohune palm n 1: tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory [syn: cohune palm, Orbignya cohune, cohune]