Definition of "cocoanut"

The Gulnare brought us a few comforts in the shape of fresh provisions, fruits and curry stuffs, for which the Malayan Archipelago is famous, and with her came a supply of cocoanuts, which would have fully stocked an average plantation.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 127

Oranges, cocoanuts and alligator pears lay in neat piles on little tables.

1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 460