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coconut milk

coconut milk noun: a thick white liquid produced by soaking the white inner flesh of the seed of the coconut in water and straining. It is traditionally used in Southeast Asian cuisine in curry and other gravy.

coconut milk: a thick white liquid produced by soaking the white inner flesh of the seed of the coconut in water...
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Noun

coconut milk (usually uncountable, plural coconut milks)

  1. (usually) A thick white liquid produced by soaking the white inner flesh of the seed of the coconut in water and straining. It is traditionally used in Southeast Asian cuisine in curry and other gravy.

coconut milk meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Sinhala

coconut milk in Tamil

இளநீர்

coconut milk in Telugu

the liquid from inside the seed of the coconut
కొబ్బరి పాలు kobbari pālu

coconut milk in Malayalam

the liquid from inside the seed of the coconut
തേങ്ങാപ്പാൽ tēṅṅāppāl

coconut milk in Sinhala

the liquid from inside the seed of the coconut
පොල් කිරි pol kiri
More languagesFewer languages
coconut milk in Tagalog
gata
coconut milk in Arabic
حَلِيب النَارَجِيل ḥalīb an-nārajīl, حَلِيب جَوْز الْهِنْد ḥalīb jawz al-hind
coconut milk in Malay
santan
coconut milk in Indonesian
santan
coconut milk in Thai
กะทิ gà-tí
coconut milk in Vietnamese
nước cốt dừa
coconut milk in Myanmar
အုန်းနို့ un:nui.

Forms of coconut milk

pluralcoconut milks

Questions about coconut milk

What does coconut milk mean?
Coconut milk means a thick white liquid produced by soaking the white inner flesh of the seed of the coconut in water and straining. It is traditionally used in Southeast Asian cuisine in curry and other gravy.
What is coconut milk in Tamil?
Coconut milk in Tamil is இளநீர். See Coconut milk meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is coconut milk?
Coconut milk is a noun.
What is the plural of coconut milk?
The plural of coconut milk is coconut milks.

Words near coconut milk in the dictionary

  1. coconut jellies
  2. coconut jelly
  3. coconut matting
  4. coconut mattings
  5. coconut meat
  6. coconut milk
  7. coconut milks
  8. coconut octopus
  9. coconut octopuses
  10. coconut oil
  11. coconut oils

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coconut milk (page history and authors); coconut milk (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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