coco
sustantivoatestiguado en diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈkəʊ.kəʊ//
- Estados Unidos//ˈkoʊ.koʊ//
Coconut palm.
sustantivo
- 1
Coconut palm.
I turn round and round to see the high mountains, the thick coco trees.
- 2
Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.
They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber.
The coco is a very common fruit, and but little esteemed; […]
You might opt for a heaping tower composed of fried oysters, coco-flavored shrimp, fried octopus, and calamari.
Etimología
From Portuguese/Spanish coco (“grinning face”) (due to the three holes in the shell resembling a human face). Doublet of coque.
Formas
- plural
- cocos, cocoes