coco de macao

Questions about coco de macao

What does coco de macao mean?

coco de macao means "tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory".

What is another word for coco de macao?

Close synonyms include babassu, babassu palm, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa, Orbignya martiana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coco de macao a common word?

coco de macao is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.