'Cohune' definitions:
Definition of 'cohune'
(from WordNet)
noun
Tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory [syn: cohune palm, Orbignya cohune, cohune]
Definition of 'Cohune'
From: GCIDE
- Cohune \Co*hune"\, n., or Cohune palm \Cohune palm\ . [Prob. fr. a native name in Honduras.] A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm ({Attalea cohune}), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a substitute for coconut oil. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]