coconut
- noun
- B2
- Top 10000
A very large round fruit that grows on palm trees, with a hard brown hairy shell, sweet white part inside and clear liquid in the middle.
He cracked the coconut open with a heavy kitchen knife.
We drank cool coconut water straight from the green shell.
This cake is covered with chocolate and grated coconut.
Ripe coconuts sometimes fall from the tall palms onto the sand.
Common collocations: a ripe coconut · crack a coconut · coconut milk · coconut oil · grated coconut · fresh coconut water
Forms
- plural
- coconuts