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Coconuts (Coco Nucifera) Origin and Current Locales The word coconut comes from the Spanish and Portuguese word coco, meaning monkey face. This is because Spanish and Portuguese explorers saw a monkey's face in the three eyes on the bottom of a coconut. They discovered these fruits on the Nicobar Islands of the Indian Ocean, where they were used primarily as currency up until the early twentieth century. Palm trees, whereupon coconuts grow, for the most part, have not been intentionally imported into countries. This is because the fruit naturally disperses itself from one tropical beach site to another through flotation on water. The coconut is the seed of the palm tree. It can float for weeks and even months without sinking due to the coir, or brown fiber of the plant, which also protects the embryo from being damaged by the seawater. When the fruit finally washes up on a beach,...

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