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- English Word Coco palm Definition See Cocoa.
- English Word Cocoa Definition Alt. of Cocoa palm
- English Word Cocoa Definition A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells.
- English Word Cocoa palm Definition A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.
- English Word Cocoanut Definition 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.
- English Word Cocobolas Definition A very beautiful and hard wood, obtained in the West India Islands. It is used in cabinetmaking, for the handles of tools, and for various fancy articles.
- English Word Cocobolo Definition Alt. of Cocobolas
- English Word Cocoon Definition An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared.
- English Word Cocoon Definition The case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa.
- English Word Cocoon Definition The case of silk made by spiders to protect their eggs.
- English Word Cocoon Definition The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms.
- English Word Cocoonery Definition A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons.
- English Word Coctible Definition Capable of being cooked.
- English Word Coctile Definition Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.
- English Word Coction Definition Act of boiling.
- English Word Coction Definition Digestion.
- English Word Coction Definition The change which the humorists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination.
- English Word Cocus wood Definition A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments.
- English Word Cod Definition A husk; a pod; as, a peascod.
- English Word Cod Definition A small bag or pouch.