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 Co·coa n., Co·coa palm  Bot. A tall palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera) as its fruit. It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree. It is widely planted throughout the tropics, and in some locations as an ornamental tree.
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 cocoa palm
      n : tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted
          throughout the tropics [syn: coconut, coconut palm, coco
          palm, coco, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera]