A Mesoamerican tree that produces resin, likely a species related to copal; a regional or archaic botanical term.
A compound word in Spanish derived from Nahuatl elements: 'copal' (resin) plus 'cocote' (possibly related to 'coco,' head or seed), suggesting a copal-bearing tree with distinctive features.
This wonderfully unwieldy name is a dinosaur of colonial botany—as scientists organized plant taxonomy, simple descriptive names like this got replaced with Latin genus-species names that were shorter and internationally recognized.
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