Noun: cohune kow'hoon
- Tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
"The cohune palm's nuts are harvested for their oil"; "The Orbignya cohune's nuts are harvested for their oil";
- cohune palm, Orbignya cohune
Derived forms: cohunes
Type of: feather palm
Part of: genus Orbignya, Orbignya
Encyclopedia: Cohune