copra

1. 1.

   the dried meat of the coconut from which oil is extracted

   Broadercoconut

Other forms of copra

plural

copras·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about copra

What does copra mean?

copra means "the dried meat of the coconut from which oil is extracted".

How many syllables are in copra?

copra has 2 syllables: co-pra. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkoʊpɹə/.

Is copra a common word?

copra is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.