How to pronounce coconut in English: coconut English [?k?k?n?t], American [?ko?k?n?t].

I. coconut example sentences

1. Mix the flour with the coconut and enough egg white to bind them.

2.The soft dints at the top of a coconut.

3, There are coconut trees near the sea and sometimes gentle winds blew through them.

2. Coconut

Coconut (scientific name: Cocos nucifera L.) is the fruit of the coconut tree, the only large plant in the genus Coco in the palm family, and is very relatively common in the tropics. Coconuts are large nuts with an outer layer made up of a fibrous husk containing coconut skin fibers and thick edible flesh. When the flesh is fresh, it has a clear liquid called coconut milk. The coconut that is usually sold commercially is still green and unripe fruit at the time of harvest. It is somewhat triangular shaped and the size of a soccer ball.

Three, morphological characteristics

Coconut is an evergreen tree with a straight trunk, 15-30m high, single crown, neat. Leaves pinnatisect, 4-6m long, most lobes, leathery, linear-lanceolate, 65-100cm long, 3-4cm wide apex acuminate; petiole robust, more than 1m long. spathe axillary, 1.5-2m long, much branched, male flowers clustered in the upper part of the branch, female flowers scattered in the lower part;

Staminate flowers with sepals 3, scalelike, 3-4mm long, 3 petals, leathery, ovate oblong, 1-1.5m long. orbicular, 1～1.5cm long; stamens 6; female flowers with several bracteoles at base, sepals leathery, orbicular, ca. 2.5cm wide, petals similar to sepals, but smaller. Nut obovate or subglobose, apically slightly trigonous, 15-25cm long, endocarp bony, with 3 germination holes near the base, 1 seed; endosperm with a cavity rich in sap.

Four, growth habit

Coconut light-loving, in the high temperature, rainy, sunny and sea breeze under the conditions of good growth and development. Temperature difference is small, frost-free throughout the year, coconut to normal flowering and fruiting, the optimal growth temperature of 26 ~ 27 ℃. Coconut suitable for growth at low altitude, Hainan Island in China at an altitude of 150 to 200m below the place to grow and develop well. Suitable soil is the sea deposits on the alluvial and riverbank alluvial soil, followed by sandy loam, again gravelly soil, clay soil is the worst.