英和和英

発音

• IPA: /kəˈkuːn/
• Homophone: cocoon

名詞

kokoon (plural kokoons)

1. (archaic) A gnu; a brindled gnu.
   • 1845, John George Cochrane [editor], The Foreign Quarterly Review:

     Mixed squads of kokoons and zebras are practising their wild gambols over the level plain, kicking, frolicking, butting, and pursuing each other with untiring perseverence

語源 2

From Sinhalese [script needed] (kokuṅ).

発音

• IPA: /kəˈkuːn/, /koʊˈkuːn/

名詞

kokoon (plural kokoons)

1. (uncommon) A tree of the genus Kokoona.

   Synonym: kokoona

   • 1872, Yearbook of Pharmacy: Comprising Abstracts of Papers Relating to Pharmacy, Materia Medica and Chemistry Contributed to British and Foreign Journal...with the Transactions of the British Pharmaceutical Conference, page 32:

     The inner yellow bark of the kokoon tree of Ceylon (Kokoona Zeylanica, Thw.) is employed there as a febrifuge and stimulatory, and as a dye.

   • 2007 October 23, Colin Tudge, The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter, Crown, →ISBN, page 169:

     The kokoon tree from Sri Lanka (Kokoona zeylanica) yields a useful oil.

   • 2012 October 16, Olavi Huikari, The Miracle of Trees, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 54:

     CELASTRALES - spindle trees, khat trees, kokoons.

参照

• “kokoon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “kokoon”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “kokoon”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.