coco

Etymology

From Portuguese/Spanish coco (“grinning face”) (due to the three holes in the shell resembling a human face).

noun

1. Coconut palm.
   I turn round and round to see the high mountains, the thick coco trees. 1992, Frances Temple, Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti, page 52
2. Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.
   They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber. 1625, Samuel Purchas, “Their Cocos and other fruits and food, their Trades and trading, Creatures profitable and hurtfull. Of Male their principall Iland. Their Houſes, Candou, Languages, Apparell.”, in Pvrchas his Pilgrimes. In Five Bookes. … The Second Part., volume II, London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose, →OCLC, [https://books.google.com/books?id=XRZZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA653 page 1643 [sic: 1653]]
   The coco is a very common fruit, and but little esteemed; […] 1813, John Adams, “A Voyage to South America”, in John Pinkerton, editor, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, page 355
   You might opt for a heaping tower composed of fried oysters, coco-flavored shrimp, fried octopus, and calamari. 2007, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's Caribbean 2008, page 468