英:[kəʊ'hu:n]
美:[koʊ'hun]
英:[kəʊ'hu:n]
美:[koʊ'hun]
noun
a commercially important Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm (Orbignya cohune) valued especially for the oil and the hard ivory-nutlike shell of its fruit
American Spanish, from Mosquito óchuṅ, uchúṅ
1 Attalea cohune.—This palm furnishes Cahoun nuts, from which is extracted cohune oil, used as a burning oil, for which purpose it is superior to cocoanut oil.
2 Cohune-nut oil is produced from the nuts of the cohune palm, which flourishes in British Honduras.
3 Define the uses of partridge canes and cohune oil.