▪ I. ‖ ˈcocco
Also 9 cocoa, coco, pl. cocoes.
The tuber of an Araceous plant Colocasia esculenta or taro-plant, cultivated in the West Indies as an article of food. Also called coco-, cocoa-root.
| 1756 P. Browne Jamaica 332 The purple cocco, and Tannier..The roots supply the poorer sort of people with what they call Bread-kind. 1866 Treas. Bot. 305 Cocoa-root or Coco. 1887 D. Morris Linn. Soc. Jrnl. Bot. XXIV., What are known as Cocoes..form an important element in the food of West-Indian negroes. 1887 G. Massee ibid., Report on the disease of ‘Cocoes’ in Jamaica. |
▪ II. cocco
(in Wyclif): see cocke, scarlet.