Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Cocoa \Co"coa\ (k[=o]"k[-o]), n., Cocoa palm \Co"coa palm`\
   (p[aum]m`)[Sp. & Pg. coco cocoanut, in Sp. also, cocoa palm.
   The Portuguese name is said to have been given from the
   monkeylike face at the base of the nut, fr. Pg. coco a
   bugbear, an ugly mask to frighten children. Cf., however, Gr.
   koy^ki the cocoa palm and its fruit, ko`i:x, ko`i:kos, a kind
   of Egyptian palm.] (Bot.)
   A palm tree producing the cocoanut ({Cocos nucifera}). It
   grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of
   sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has
   a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty
   feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in
   clusters; the cocoanut tree.

Source : WordNet®

cocoa palm
     n : tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted
         throughout the tropics [syn: {coconut}, {coconut palm}, {coco
         palm}, {coco}, {coconut tree}, {Cocos nucifera}]