coconut

«coconut» in Mova's school dictionary: the large, hard, hairy brown fruit of a palm tree, with… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a coconut, coconuts; coconut — the flesh, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) A coconut is the large, hard, hairy brown fruit of a palm tree, with white flesh and liquid inside. tree →

2) Coconut is the white flesh used in cooking and sweets. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons, coconuts grow on palm trees on tropical beaches and can float across seas to spread their seeds. In everyday life, coconut is used in curries, cakes and sweets; coconut milk and water come from it. Phrases: coconut palm, coconut milk, desiccated coconut.

examples

• Coconuts grow on palm trees. tree →
• We cracked open a coconut and drank the water. tree →
• This cake has coconut on top. tree →
• A coconut is very hard on the outside. tree →
• Coconut milk makes the curry creamy. tree →
• Coconuts can float across the ocean. tree →
• Don't sit right under a coconut palm; a falling coconut can hurt. tree →
• Tall palm trees grew in long rows on the shore and bore coconuts in their top branches. tree →

note

Countable for the fruit (a coconut), uncountable for the food (some coconut). Spelling: coco-nut, no a. Fact: botanists call a coconut a drupe, not a true nut. Some people are allergic to coconut.

In the corpora

• Octopuses can solve puzzles, open jars, learn by watching and remember people; wild ones carry coconut shell halves to hide in.
• The veined octopus of Indonesia carries coconut shell halves and closes itself inside them when danger comes, a kind of tool use.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «coconut» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.