coconuts
- 1Plural of coconut.
Ripe coconuts dropped from the palm onto the warm sand below.
She cracked open two coconuts to drink the sweet water inside.
Note
The plural belongs to the countable senses: whole fruits, hard-shelled seeds, or the palms themselves. The edible white flesh is a mass noun, so a recipe calls for grated coconut, never grated coconuts. Before another noun the singular stays, as in coconut oil. The derogatory senses are countable as well, so in talk about people the plural can carry an ethnic slur.
coconuts is a form of coconut
coconut, noun: The hard-shelled seed of the coconut palm's fruit, with firm white flesh lining the shell and a central cavity filled with watery liquid. Full entry
- Forms
- coconutcoconuts plural
- Spelling
- coconut → coconuts: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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