English-French translations for coconut

• noix de coco
• cocotier
  Et vous connaissez ce proverbe: "On ne grimpe pas au cocotier quand on a un trou à son pantalon". You know the French saying: 'don't climb coconut trees when you have a hole in your trousers'.
  On dit en France que quand on grimpe au cocotier il faut avoir la culotte propre. There is a French saying that if you climb a coconut tree, you need to be wearing clean trousers.
  Madame la Présidente, chers collègues, le Pacifique, il est vrai, évoque toujours des images paradisiaques : plages, cocotiers, soleil. Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is true that the Pacific always evokes images of paradise: beaches, coconut palms, sun.

Definition of coconut

• A fruit of the coconut palm , ''Cocos nucifera'', having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed
• The edible white flesh of this fruit
• A Hispanic or dark-skinned person who acts “white” , alluding to the fact that a coconut is brown on the outside and white on the inside
• A Pacific islander
• The human head (often used in cricket broadcasts when a ball hits or nearly hits a batsman on the head

Related words

• coconut-tree
• coconuts
• coconut palm
• coconut milk
• coconut tree
• coconut fibre
• coconut water
• coconut oil
• coconut macaroon