coco-palms

Occasionally a clump of tufted coco-palms, or of the beautiful candle-nut rose among the smaller growths.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

And the Portuguese were glad to sail on to Melindi, where the tall, whitewashed houses standing round the bay, with their coco-palms, maize fields, and hop gardens, reminded them of one of their own cities on the Tagus.

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

A group of excited tourists was gathered beneath the tallest of the coco-palms, and looking aloft, Charlie saw one of the beach-boys, in a red bathing-suit, climbing the tree with the agility of a monkey.

Charlie Chan Carries On Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 1930

Lulled as they are by the whisper of the soft invigorating trade-winds in the coco-palms - I'll finish that later.

The Black Camel Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 1929

Blackness covers the coco-palms, yet they may be heard rustling at the trade-wind's touch; the white line of the breakers is blotted out, yet they continue to crash on that unseen shore with what seems an added vigor.

The Black Camel Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 1929

The moon shone down above from among the fronds of tall coco-palms, on a dense crowd of native worshipers -- men and a few women -- the men for the most part clad in little more than a loin-cloth, the women picturesque in their colored saris and jewelled ear and nose rings.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

Areca and sago palms, bamboos, ebony, and other woods abound: coco-palms and caoutchouc are grown on the small area yet under cultivation.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

The curving fronds of the towering coco-palms and panjandrus had been interlaced; and nature did the rest, the gigantic leaves interweaving, blending, over-lapping, meeting in a passionate and successful desire to form

The Cruise of the Kawa 1911

The coast of India is still in sight -- a belt of sand, over which the surf rolls in from the sea, surmounted by a fringe of coco-palms.

From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908

On these islands, too, grow many plants and trees which are invaluable to the use of man -- sugar-cane, coffee and tea, rice and tobacco, spices, coco-palms, and the tree the bark of which yields the remedy for fever, quinine.

From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908