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 root … supply many of 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. 45. What are known as ‘Cocoes’ … form an important element in the food of West-Indian negroes.
1887. G. Massee, ibid. 46. Report on the Disease of ‘Cocoes’ (Colocasia) in Jamaica.
Cocco (in Wyclif): see COCKE, scarlet.
