plural cocos
: the coconut palm
also : its fruit

Examples of coco in a Sentence

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Warm coco bread is ready to be smeared with sweet malted sorghum butter. Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2024 Chanel rouge coco lipstick Chanel’s rouge coco lipstick is made with jojoba and mimosa butters, sunflower wax and silicone, according to their website. Gabriele Regalbuto, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2024

Word History

Etymology

Spanish coco & Portuguese côco bogeyman, grimace, coconut

First Known Use

1555, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of coco was in 1555

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Cite this Entry

“Coco.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coco. Accessed 11 Jan. 2025.

Geographical Definition

Coco

geographical name

variants or formerly Segovia
river over 450 miles (724 kilometers) long in northern Nicaragua flowing northeast into the Caribbean Sea and forming part of the Honduras–Nicaragua boundary
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