cocos nucifera

Questions about cocos nucifera

What does cocos nucifera mean?

cocos nucifera means "tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics".

What is another word for cocos nucifera?

Close synonyms include coconut, coconut palm, coco palm, coco, cocoa palm. 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 cocos nucifera a common word?

cocos nucifera 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.