noun
- Plural of cohune; a tropical American palm tree (Attalea cohune) that produces large nuts used for oil and other products.
Usage: Also called cohune palm or cohune nut palm; Primarily used in botanical and agricultural contexts
Examples
- The cohunes grow abundantly in Central American rainforests.
- Farmers harvest cohunes for their valuable oil-rich nuts.
- The indigenous people have used cohunes for centuries as a food source.
- Cohunes are an important part of the tropical ecosystem in Belize and Guatemala.