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cocovore

cocovore noun: an eater of coconuts; someone subsisting primarily on coconut.

Noun

cocovore (plural cocovores)

  1. (rare) An eater of coconuts; someone subsisting primarily on coconut.
    • Fraulein Schwab was German, a nudist, a Cocovore, but undoubtedly a well-born lady.2014, Adrian McKinty, The Sun is God
    • August Engelhardt's most fervent wish, his destiny in fact, was to establish a colony of cocovores.2015, Christian Kracht, translated by Daniel Bowles, Imperium, Picador, published 2016, page 10

Forms of cocovore

pluralcocovores

Origin of cocovore

From coco(nut) + -vore.

Questions about cocovore

What does cocovore mean?
Cocovore means an eater of coconuts; someone subsisting primarily on coconut.
What part of speech is cocovore?
Cocovore is a noun.
What is the plural of cocovore?
The plural of cocovore is cocovores.

Words near cocovore in the dictionary

  1. cocounselling
  2. cocounsels
  3. cocountability
  4. cocountable
  5. cocountableness
  6. cocovore
  7. cocovores
  8. cocowood
  9. cocowoods
  10. cocoyam
  11. cocoyams

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