How To Use Cocoanut In A Sentence
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A young pig was promptly despatched, and while he was being roasted among hot stones, and while chickens were stewing in cocoanut milk, I persuaded one of the cooks to climb an unusually tall cocoanut palm.
Chapter 10
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The cocoanut-palm, date-palm and orange orchards contrasted their rich foliage in the sunshine with the pineapple, banana and the rich soft turf of the mesquit-grass.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
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Some of the Egyptians use a form of hookah called the narghile or nargeeleh -- so named because the water is contained in the shell of a cocoanut of which the Arabic name is nargeeleh.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
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Cocoanuts contain a sweet liquid which is called cocoanut milk.
Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency
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She rolls in the long soft grass, where the gold colored snakes are at play; she watches the young monkeys chattering and swinging among the trees, hung by the tail; she chases the splendid green parrots that fly among the trees; and she drinks the sweet milk of a cocoanut from a round cup made of its shell.
The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air
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They gathered up scraps of food which had touched his lips, an empty whiskey bottle, a cocoanut from which he had drunk, and even his spittle, and performed all kinds of deviltries over them.
YAH! YAH! YAH!
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A rich land-holder will have his rice fields, sugar mill, vino factory, and cocoanut and hemp plantations.
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines
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The fibrous husk round the cocoanut, called coir, is manufactured into ropes, matting, brushes, and other useful articles.
Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877
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One of the chief exports of the island is copra, which is the meat of the cocoanut, picked and dried at a certain stage of its growth.
Some Reminiscences of old Victoria
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We are minus a chimney on this insinuator, but we are bettin 'on you and the reindeers just the same, to slip one over on us and come shinnin' down a cocoanut-tree with your pack.
The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old
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Other examples are: the fat of meats, bone-marrow, suet (the best found around the loin and kidneys of the beef creature), cocoanut butter, butterine , and oleomargarine.
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Here, an 'I browt thee a bit o' brandysnap, an 'a cocoanut for th' children.
Sons and Lovers
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When we had satisfied ourselves with the fish, one of the people who came with us from the last village approached, with a kind of ladle in one hand, containing oil, and in the other something that resembled the inner rind of the cocoanut, but of a lighter colour.
Pioneers in Canada
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The anthropoid apes can easily break a cocoanut with their teeth, and Guyot-Daubes thinks that possibly a gorilla has a jaw-force of 200 pounds.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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The cocoanut is particular to the tropics.
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No cocoanuts nor bananas were to be seen, though dense, tropic vegetation overran everything, dripping in airy festoons from the sheer lips of the precipices and running riot in all the crannied ledges.
The Whale Tooth
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Lilac plumbago, red hybiscus, and golden allemanda mingle with pink and purple lantana, yellow daisies, and hedges of scarlet tassels, enclosing wicker huts in patches of banana and cocoanut.
Through the Malay Archipelago
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On that particular day, the feature show was Cocoanuts, the new Marx Brothers comedy set in Florida.
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No cocoanuts nor bananas were to be seen, though dense, tropic vegetation overran everything, dripping in airy festoons from the sheer lips of the precipices and running riot in all the crannied ledges.
The Whale Tooth
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This fact was emphasized by a long afternoon drive, beginning in the native quarter with its attendant bazars and ending with a long country tour for at least an hour through a forest of palms of many varieties, the tall talipot towering high -- higher even than the fruit-laden cocoanut palm, -- while bread-fruit trees, jack-fruit trees, and bananas made a pleasing variety.
Travels in the Far East
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All the islanders are more or less in the habit of anointing themselves; the women preferring the 'aker' to 'papa', and the men using the oil of the cocoanut.
Typee
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There was no wind, and the flames rose straight up, scorching the cocoanut-leaves, but unharming other houses within twenty-five feet.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
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There was a _tinaja_, or earthenware jar, holding about twenty gallons of water, and a dipper made of a polished cocoanut shell.
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines
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On the tenth day they go again and break a cocoanut, and each man buries a little piece of it in the earth over the grave.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)
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At Peradeniya the palm family has nearly a hundred representatives, including the areca, palmyra, talipot, royal, fan, traveler's, date and cocoanut.
East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan
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He cut out the cocoanut from the shells day after day; and for long days and weeks he fed the fires that smoked the copra, till his eyes got sore and he was set to felling trees.
MAUKI
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With several deft strokes of his heavy-backed sheath-knife, Grief clipped a triangular piece of shell from the end of a husked drinking - cocoanut.
THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN
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Their principal deity is Bura Deo, [92] who is supposed to reside in a _saj_ tree (_Terminalia tomentosa_); he is worshipped in the month of Jeth (May), when goats, fowls, cocoanuts, and the liquor of the new mahua crop are offered to him.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
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I have a suspicion that the so-called carnivorous animals were all at some remote time nut eaters; the so-called carnivorous teeth would be as useful in tearing off the husks of cocoanuts and similar fruits, as for tearing and eating flesh.
Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916.
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Pae furnished a limited quantity of rum for the fete, and a cocoanut-shell filled with _namu_ was passed about.
White Shadows in the South Seas
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Fresh from the flower spathes of the cocoanut-tree, _namu_ tastes like a very light, creamy beer or mead.
White Shadows in the South Seas
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On that particular day, the feature show was Cocoanuts, the new Marx Brothers comedy set in Florida.
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Plainly it would be unwise to venture within range of the arboreal hailstones without protection, for though our pith-helmets were of the best quality they were, after all, but pith, and a cocoanut is a cocoanut, the world over.
The Cruise of the Kawa
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DUCK SOUP ($19.98; Universal) -- The Marx Brothers are one of movie's greatest pleasures and their string of "animal" pictures (Horse Feathers, Monkey Business, Animal Crackers, Duck Soup plus The Cocoanuts in this reissue) are considered their screen peak with Duck Soup the peakiest of the peaks.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: How Good Is Matt Damon? Damn Good
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They will feast you on raw fish, with the scales on, cocoanuts, plantains, baked dogs and fricasseed cats.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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Here and there a rise of ground betrayed itself in a few cocoanuts, the ragged fans of tall bouri palms, or a plume-like clump of bamboo and the hospitable shade of a magnificent mango tree.
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines
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The anthropoid apes can easily break a cocoanut with their teeth, and Guyot-Daubès thinks that possibly a gorilla has a jaw-force of 200 pounds.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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For while they lie basking in the sun, without care of theirs, the cocoanut, the breadfruit, the yam, the guava, the banana, and the delicious papaya, which is a compound of a ripe apricot with a Cantaloupe melon, grow and ripen perpetually.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Here, sheltered more completely than opposite the break in the reef, the artu came in places right down to the water's edge; the breadfruit trees cast the shadow of their great scalloped leaves upon the water; glades, thick with fern, wildernesses of the mammee apple, and bushes of the scarlet "wild cocoanut" all slipped by, as the dinghy, hugging the shore, crept up the lagoon.
The Blue Lagoon: a romance
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The great entrance arteries of the nest branched and bifurcated, separated and anastomosed, while here and there were chambers varying in size from a cocoanut to a football.
Edge of the Jungle
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Great was my surprise to find myself facing an attractive little pasang-grahan, lying on grassy, level ground at almost the same height as the tops of the cocoanut and pinang palms on the other side of the river.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917
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As it was, the murder of the white men, of any white man, would bring a man-of-war that would kill the offenders and chop down the precious cocoanut trees.
MAUKI
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He was brought in, heavy-featured and defiant, his arms bound with cocoanut sennit, the dry blood still on his body from the struggle with his captors.
Chapter 2
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On state occasions the men are the cooks, and there is one dish that is only to be prepared by the _manaia_ -- who has to array himself in full war paint to serve it -- and a grand dish it is, composed of breadfruit dumplings stewed in cocoanut cream in a wooden bowl by means of hot stones dropped in.
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
