Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Cocoa palm

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Cocoa palm


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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.