coco

Noun (1)

coco (plural cocos or cocoes)

1. Coconut palm.
   • I turn round and round to see the high mountains, the thick coco trees.1992, Frances Temple, Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti, page 52
2. Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.
   • They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber.1625, Samuel Purchas, “Their Cocos and other fruits and food, their Trades and trading, Creatures profitable and hurtfull. Of Male their principall Iland. Their Houſes, Candou, Languages, Apparell.”...
   • The coco is a very common fruit, and but little esteemed; […]1813, John Adams, “A Voyage to South America”, in John Pinkerton, editor, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, page 355

Proper noun capitalized: Coco

IPA/ˈkəʊkə/

Coco (countable and uncountable, plural Cocos)

1. An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
2. A female given name.
3. A surname from Sicilian.

Noun (2) capitalized: CoCo

CoCo (plural CoCos)

1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of contingent convertible bond.

   Synonyms:

   CoCo bond