See Also: coconut shy(dictionary)
coconut(dictionary)
Coconut(recipes)
coconut(dictionary)
coconut(medicine)
Coconut Snowdrops(recipes)
Coconut Bonbons(recipes)
Coconut ice cream(recipes)
Coconut Craters(recipes)
Mussels with dry coconut(recipes)

temperative (iou) and coconut (iou)


temperative (iou)



temperative adjective. Now rare or obsolete. LME.
[Late Latin temperativus, from Latin temperat- (see TEMPERATURE) + -ATIVE.]
Having the quality of tempering something; tending to a temperate state.

coconut (iou)



coconut noun. Also cocoanut. E17.
[from COCO noun + NUT noun.]
I.
The large ovate brown hard-shelled seed of the tropical palm tree Cocos nucifera, which has an edible white lining enclosing a white liquid; the flesh of this. E17.
SEA coconut. the milk in the coconut: see MILK noun.
The tree itself. M19.
The human head. slang. M19.
II.
double coconut, = COCO-DE-MER. E19.
Comb.: coconut butter the solid oil obtained from the flesh of the coconut, used in soap, candles, ointment, etc.; coconut crab a large terrestrial pagurid crab Birgus latro, which climbs palm trees to get coconuts; also called palm-crab, robber crab; coconut ice a sweet of sugar and desiccated coconut; coconut matting: made from the fibre of the nut's outer husk; coconut milk the liquid found inside the coconut; coconut palm = sense 2 above; coconut shy a sideshow in a fairground where balls are thrown to try to dislodge coconuts; coconut tree = sense 2 above.