Also kokum. [? Malay.] An East Indian tree Garcinia purpurea related to the Mangosteen. Cocum butter or oil: a greenish-yellow solid oil obtained from the seeds of this tree.
c. 1865. Letheby, in Circ. Sci., I. 95/1. Cocum oil, or Kokum butter.
1882. Syd. Soc. Lex., Cocum butter … Cocum oil, The concrete oil of the seeds of Garcinia purpurea.
