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Definition :

A tall palm tree producing the cocoanut Cocos nucifera as its fruit It grows in nearly all tropical countries attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet The trunk is without branches and has a tuft of leaves at the top each being fifteen or twenty feet in length and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters the cocoanut tree It is widely planted throughout the tropics and in some locations as an ornamental tree