copra

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the dried white flesh or kernel of a coconut, from which coconut oil is extracted

   The islanders dried coconut flesh in the sun and sold the copra to an oil mill.

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Borrowed in the sixteenth century through Portuguese copra from Malayalam koppara, 'dried coconut.' The word traveled with the maritime trade in coconut products from South Asia.

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