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coco de mer, n.|ˈkəʊkəʊ də meə(r)|
[a. Fr., lit., ‘sea coco’, in allusion to their being found floating in the Indian Ocean.]
= double coconut s.v. coco n. 5; also, the tall fan palm, Lodoicea maldivica, on which this nut grows.
1827W. J. Hooker in Curtis's Bot. Mag. LIV. Plates 2734–8 f.5, A Coco de Mer, planted on M. de Quincy's estate, on the Isle Mahé, is thirteen feet and a half high..and was planted forty years ago. 1864Gardeners' Chron. 26 Mar. 294/3 Not many years can elapse before the Coco de Mer will become in reality as rare as was supposed by the voyagers who picked up the first-known specimens of the nuts floating on the sea. 1926E. Blatter Palms Brit. India & Ceylon ii. 245 (caption) A grave of Lodoiceas in the Coco-de-mer Valley of Praslin Island. 1934Discovery Mar. 83/1 The Coco de Mer palm shoots up to a height of 130 feet, straight as a mast, and is covered with tufts of fan-like leaves. 1970Simon & Howe Dict. Gastron. 130/2 Coco de mer is an extraordinary double-coconut, indigenous to the Seychelles and said to have been the fruit with which the Devil tempted Eve. |