coconut

Meanings

Plural: coconuts

Noun

the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries
large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk
tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
The edible white flesh of this fruit.
The coconut palm.
A Hispanic or other dark-skinned person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a race traitor.
A black person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a black race traitor.
A Pacific islander.
A Malay person who cannot speak Malay.
A female breast.
The human head.

Origin / Etymology

From coco + nut. In reference to assimilated Hispanic or black people, derived from the fruit's exotic origins and the slur that they are "brown on the outside, white on the inside". In reference to Polynesians, from the ubiquity of coconut palms in the area.

Synonyms

coco, coco palm, cocoa palm, cocoanut, coconut meat, coconut palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera, nut, Oreo, Uncle Tom

Scrabble Score: 11

coconut is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
coconut is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
coconut is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

coconut is a valid Words With Friends word