cocal

plural cocals

1. A coconut grove or plantation.

   One night a week Brother Jake divided the Scouts into two teams and took them to the Esmeralda cocal (coconut grove) just south of the village.

   1989, Emory King, The Little World of Danny Vasquez: Memoirs of Old San Pedro, page 95

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   Two lizards were found in 2 coconut palms a mile apart on the beach, in the middle of the afternoon of March 23. The tracks indicated that they had crawled out of the cocal, wandered around the beach a little, and then climbed the trees.

   1963, Ecology - Volume 44, page 614

   Since the average cocal (coconut plantation) has one hundred trees, this is an income of only $5 per year per plantation in badly blighted areas.

   1969, Regina Evans Holloman, Developmental Change in San Blas, page 122

   One immense cocal (coconut plantation), about 7 miles north of Greytown, constituting a strip about 20 miles along the Caribbean shore, was estimated to have thousands of trees.

   1985, Craig Lanier Dozier, Nicaragua's Mosquito Shore: The Years of British and American Presence