kokoon

plural kokoons

1. archaicA gnu; a brindled gnu.

   Mixed squads of kokoons and zebras are practising their wild gambols over the level plain, kicking, frolicking, butting, and pursuing each other with untiring perseverence

   1845, John George Cochrane [editor], The Foreign Quarterly Review

plural kokoons

1. uncommonA tree of the genus Kokoona.

   CELASTRALES - spindle trees, khat trees, kokoons.

   2012 October 16, Olavi Huikari, The Miracle of Trees, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 54

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   The inner yellow bark of the kokoon tree of Ceylon (Kokoona Zeylanica, Thw.) is employed there as a febrifuge and stimulatory, and as a dye.

   1872, Yearbook of Pharmacy: Comprising Abstracts of Papers Relating to Pharmacy, Materia Medica and Chemistry Contributed to British and Foreign Journal...with the Transactions of the British Pharmaceutical Conference, page 32

   The kokoon tree from Sri Lanka (Kokoona zeylanica) yields a useful oil.

   2007 October 23, Colin Tudge, The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter, Crown, →ISBN, page 169

   Synonyms: kokoona