coconut, coconut palm, coco palm, coco, cocoa palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera

tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics

• palm, palm tree — any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves

• coconut, cocoanut — large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk

• Cocos, genus Cocos — coconut palms