copra

How To Use copra In A Sentence

• This is called cobri, copra, or copperah in different localities. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
• After months of negotiations they agreed to unload their cargo of copra and the ship owners promised they would be paid in full and repatriated to their homelands.
• The 680-ton ferry was carrying 243 passengers, 41 crew members, 14 vehicles and sacks of dried copra when the fire broke out.
• Port is mainly engaged in copra, coconut oil, rubber and transportation boards and timber exports.
• Besides the raw materials already mentioned, the area produced rubber, copra, nickel, timber, quinine, and important foodstuffs such as sugar, rice, tea, and coffee.
• It is made from copra, or dried coconut meat, then treated to remove impurities.
• While the plantation produces copra for the world market, workers have successfully prevented any product from leaving the island for 12 months.
• Coconut or ‘copra’ oil is extracted from the coconut fruit.
• I wasn't hugely satisfied: I can think of other significant plants (the spices, coffee and cacao, flax and sisal, the coconut/copra) whose trade has affected and continues to affect the world economy. Linkspam for 12-10-2009
• 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