cocovore

English

Etymology

From coco(nut) +‎ -vore.

Noun

cocovore (plural cocovores)

  1. (rare) An eater of coconuts; someone subsisting primarily on coconut.
    • 2014, Adrian McKinty, The Sun is God:
      Fraulein Schwab was German, a nudist, a Cocovore, but undoubtedly a well-born lady.
    • 2015, Daniel Bowles, translating Christian Kracht, Imperium, Picador 2016, p. 10:
      August Engelhardt's most fervent wish, his destiny in fact, was to establish a colony of cocovores.
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