coconut Definition
coco·nut (kō′kə nut′)
noun
the fruit of the coconut palm, consisting of a thick, fibrous, brown, oval husk under which there is a thin, hard shell enclosing a layer of edible white meat: the hollow center is filled with a sweet, milky fluid called coconut milk
coconut Usage Examples
Converse of object
- grate: Cover the top with a thin layer of grated coconut.
- cream: Start with frying the onion and then simply add the spices and creamed coconut, and a little stock or water.
- pick: Coconut Ice - you'll be picking the coconut out of your teeth for days Cow - moo!
- fall: In areas where falling coconuts are a problem, they are issued with helmets.
- win: Later I also went up to go on the roundabouts to try and win a coconut.
- contain: Please note that some of these products contain coconut.
Adjective modifier
- desiccated: Plain cookies with a handful of sesame seeds or desiccated coconut added into the dough are delicious.
- shredded: Add the shredded coconut into the melted chocolate and mix it with a spoon.
- fresh: Fresh coconut also goes well with spinach for a vegetable side dish.
- green: In the fruit basket there's a green coconut, already slit, with a straw jammed inside.
- young: These strong strains of digestive bacteria will also culture coconut water from young coconuts or any milk product.
- double: The population structure of the double coconut and some other Seychelles palms.
Modifies a noun
- palm: I look out through the coconut palms, beyond the rocks to the horizon.
- husk: It is a long process which involves soaking the coconut husks in pits in the ground.
- grove: Casualty agent with coconut grove itself move into the owner of the.
- matting: Where there were gaps in the hedge, coconut matting would be put on poles.
- milk: I had snapper cooked in coconut milk which cost about $ 14.50.
- plantation: The paper mill has been built in a coconut plantation on the edge of the town of Pondicherry.
Used with adjective complement
cream: Coconut slush Ingredients 25g creamed coconut 2 x 15ml spoons boiling water 300ml goat's milk 2 x 5ml spoons clear honey.
Noun used with modifier
dessicated: Chill for 2 hours and top with dessicated coconut.
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