coconut

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈkoʊ.kə.nʌt/

Noun

countable uncountable derogatory ethnic slur Australia South-Africa New-Zealand slang

A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed. / A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.

Japanese Meaning

ヤシの実。繊維質の外皮に覆われた大きな種を持つ、ココヤシ（Cocos nucifera）の果実。 / この果実から得られる、堅い殻に覆われた種。白い果肉と液体が入った中央部が特徴。

What is this buttons?

I cracked open a coconut on the beach and drank the sweet water inside.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

私はビーチでココナッツを割って、中の甘い水を飲んだ。

Details

Sense（1）

The Coco-nut Trees grow by the Sea, on the Weſtern ſide in great Groves, 3 or 4 Miles in length, and a Mile or two broad. This tree is in ſhape like the Cabbage-tree, and at a diſtance they are not to be known each from other, only the Coco-nut Tree is fuller of Branches ; but the Cabbage-tree generally is much higher, tho' the Coco-nut Trees in ſome places are very high.

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Details

Sense（2）

A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.

Sense（3）

(uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.

Sense（4）

The coconut palm.

Sense（5）

After that I was regarded as comic. I became a ‘coconut’—someone brown on the outside, white on the inside. I was the bleached academic—more white than the anglo professors. In my classes several students glared at me, clearly seeing in me the person they feared ever becoming. Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization?

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