Cohune

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cohune \Co*hune"\, n., or Cohune palm \Cohune palm\ . [Prob. fr.
     a native name in Honduras.]
     A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm ({Attalea
     cohune}), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to
     make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a
     substitute for coconut oil.


     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cohune
       n : tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield
           valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory [syn: {cohune
           palm}, {Orbignya cohune}]