A tall coconut palm tree native to Central America that produces edible nuts and valuable oil.
From Spanish 'cohune' or similar Mayan languages of Mesoamerica, this word refers to a tree species documented by Spanish explorers and adopted into English scientific and trade terminology.
The cohune palm was so important to ancient Maya civilization that some archaeological sites show evidence of large cohune groves being deliberately cultivated and managed for food production.
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