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English
Noun
coco-nut (plural coco-nuts)
- Archaic form of coconut.
1697, William Dampier, chapter IV, in A New Voyage Round the World. , London: James Knapton, , →OCLC, page 77:Their ſubſiſtence is much the ſame as in the other lſlands; they having ſome Goats, Fowls, Plantains, Coco-Nuts, &c. as I am informed.
1843, James Horsburgh, “The Paracels, with the Banks and Dangers in the Northern part of the China Sea”, in The India Directory, or, Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, Australia, and the Interjacent Ports of Africa and South America: , volume II, London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., →OCLC, page 358:[P]lantains, yams, and sweet potatoes, may be also procured, but coco-nuts are in the greatest abundance, and on these all the animals are fed, there being no sort of grain.
1860, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “On the Geography and Ethnology of the First Region”, in The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration , volume I, London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, →OCLC, page 117:[T]he only part of the body exposed to view is the little coco-nut head, with the small, round, beady black eyes in a state of everlasting stare.