copra
IPA: kˈoʊprʌ
noun
- The dried kernel of the coconut, from which coconut oil is extruded.
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Examples of "copra" in Sentences
- Copra is also an important crop.
- Borongan's main product is copra.
- The main agricultural product is copra.
- The main product of the province is Copra.
- The principal exports are copra and cacao.
- The island was an important producer of copra.
- Copra and Dalo are the main exports on the island.
- She was scheduled to return with a cargo of copra.
- It is a center of copra and aquaculture production.
- The livelihood on this barangay are farming and copra.
- Beneath her hatches she was crammed and jammed with pearl shell and copra.
- Some oilseeds (such as copra) have a fibre content which provides the friction needed to heat the barrel.
- Large sized material, such as copra or palmkernels, must to be crushed into pieces of about 5 mm diameter.
- Leonetta did not know what "copra" was, but she thought it sounded sufficiently like a precious metal to suggest immense wealth.
- One of the chief exports of the island is copra, which is the meat of the cocoanut, picked and dried at a certain stage of its growth.
- The principal industry is the preparation and exportation of copra, which is very plentiful, although there is some little traffic in shark fins.
- The beautiful cocoa-nut palm was plentiful, so much so that I wondered why there were no settlers to collect "copra," or dried cocoa-nut, for oil.
- I wasn't hugely satisfied: I can think of other significant plants (the spices, coffee and cacao, flax and sisal, the coconut/copra) whose trade has affected and continues to affect the world economy.
- The counts upon which whites have been deported are mainly four: cheating Tembinok ', meddling overmuch with copra, which is the source of his wealth, and one of the sinews of his power,' PEAKING, and political intrigue.
- At St Lambrecht the POWs performed road works, bridge work and repairs to rail lines (e.g. at Mariahoff Railway Station) etc. They also unloaded bags of copra from the rail trucks at Mariahoff and placed them in storage sheds for the nearby dynamite factory.