2syllables
coconut
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Definitions ofcoconut
1noun
- A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
- A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
- The edible white flesh of this fruit.
- The coconut palm.
- A Hispanic or dark-skinned person who acts “white” (Caucasian), alluding to the fact that a coconut is brown on the outside and white on the inside.
- A black person who thinks or acts "white" (European).
- A Pacific islander.
- A female breast.
- The human head (often used in cricket broadcasts when a ball hits or nearly hits a batsman on the head).
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