cocoanut
Americannoun
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Oleochemicals are natural oils derived from palm, cocoanut and other plants and are used to make everything from detergent to plastics.
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“That last remark was like a cocoanut thrown by a monkey from the top of the cocoanut-palm,” she said.
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The sun had risen over the Ghauts, and now cast his light on the islands, covered with cocoanut palms, and on the forest of shipping that lay on the tranquil waters.
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It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.
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But Crusoe didn't need a roof nor a stove, for he was in a warm climate; and he had goats and birds, and shell-fish along the rocks, and cocoanuts, and lots of other things.
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