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cocorite|ˈkəʊkəraɪt|
Also 8 cocareeta, 9 cokarito, cokerite, coucourite.
[Brazilian.]
In full cocorite palm: a small South American palm, Maximiliana regia.
1796Stedman Surinam I. 246 A kind of low or dwarf palm-tree, called the cocareeta. 1825Waterton Wand. S. Amer. i. 59 The arrow..is made out of the leaf of a species of palm-tree, called Coucourite. 1851W. H. Brett Ind. Miss. Guiana 31 Numerous species of palms are also seen... Among them are the cokarito. 1871Kingsley At Last v, Some,..like the Cocorite, almost stemless, rising in a huge ostrich plume. 1883E. F. Im Thurn Among Indians Guiana 267 The cokerite (Maximiliana regia). 1899Rodway Guiana Wilds 36 Fine cocorite palms. 1958J. Carew Wild Coast viii. 107 Clusters of cocorite palms. |