cohune

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noun tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory

Borrowed from Spanish cohune, perhaps from Miskito ókhún.

See ib. p. 257, where it is stated that it was in 1774 (the year after Johnson’s visit), that “a removal was made from the old castle to the centre portion.” [732] Johnson spells the name as it was pronounced Cohune. — Footsteps of Dr. Johnson (Scotland), George Birkbeck Norman Hill

cohune palm, Orbignya cohune

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