Also 6 chopra, 8 copera, 9 coprah, copperah. [a. Pg. (and Sp.) copra (in Garcia 1563, Acosta 1578), app. ad. Malayālam koppara, in Hindī khoprā coco-nut. Now naturalized in some isles of Polynesia.]
The dried kernel of the coco-nut, prepared and exported for the expression of coco-nut oil.
1584. Barret, in Hakluyt, Voy., II. 413 (Y.). Chopra, from Cochin and Malabar.
1598. trans. Linschoten’s Voy., 101 (Y.). The other Oyle is prest out of the dried Cocus, which is called Copra.
1727. A. Hamilton, New Acc. E. Ind., I. xxv. 306. Cocoa-nut … produceth … Copera, or the kernels of the Nut dried, and out of those kernels there is a very clear Oyl exprest.
1880. Athenæum, 18 Dec., 809/1. It is fortunate for Fiji that her future is not dependent on copra alone.
1889. H. H. Romilly, Verandah in N. Guinea, 275. Copra is the kernel of the ripe cocoa-nut, cut into small pieces and dried in the sun.
