Coco-river
[koh-koh; Spanish kaw-kaw] /ˈkoʊ koʊ; Spanish ˈkɔ kɔ/
noun
1.
a river rising in N Nicaragua and flowing NE along the Nicaragua-Honduras border to the Caribbean Sea. About 300 miles (485 km) long.
/ˈkəʊkəʊ/
noun (pl) -cos
1.
short for coconut, coconut palm
n.
“palm tree,” mid-16c., from Spanish and Portuguese coco “grinning face,” on resemblance of the three holes at the base of the shell to a human face. The earlier word for it was the Latinized form cocus, which sometimes was anglicized as cocos.
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