cohune

2 definitions found

cohune - 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.]

cohune - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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