coco

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  1. A name in Argentina of a tree of the rue family, Fagara Coco found in the sierras of the country. It has a powerful penetrating odor and yields a wood of a beautiful light-green color. Also called cochucho.
  2. The nutgrass, Cyperus rotundus. See Cyperus. Also coco-sedge.
  3. In the British West Indies, the taroplant, Caladium Colocasia.

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  • Would you believe coco is a freelancer for different designers and magazines —  Heavy Backpack - A Creative Catalogue
  • The monster is called the coco (at least in Spain). —  Cracked: All Posts
  • A coral atoll, with a crystal lagoon in the middle for our ships, and a fringe of palms along the margin--coco-palms, you remember; and the lagoon was green, sometimes, and sometimes blue; and the sharks never came over the bar, but the porpoises came in and played for us, and made fireworks in the phosphorescent waves His eyes grew almost tender, as he gazed out of the window, and ceased to speak without finishing the sentence,--which it took me some minutes to follow out to the end, in my mind. —  Aladdin ; Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
  • For many things hold in their heart things not to be anticipated, judging by their outside: and this lump which thou despisest is like a coco-nut, whose coarse skin is full of nectar. —  The Substance of a Dream
  • See "Palm-coco," 159 Coleochæte_, 28; Fig. —  Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
 

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  1. Native name.
  2. Origin uncertain.
  3. Also cocoe, cocco; apparently native.
 

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