spanish, meaning "monkey-faced" or "eerie-faced" and nucifera from latin meaning nut-bearing plant (from fero = i bear and nux-nucis = nut). it's nut, perhaps bearing three germinating pores, resembles a monkey face.the coconut palm, has been eulogised as "kalpavriksha" (vriksha means tree in malayalam...
. risk factors due to its high oil content, copra has a tendency to self-heating/spontaneous combustion; see also text. copra contents copra description applications shipment/storage risk factors description copra is the cut, dried endosperm (nutritive tissue) of the coconut, fruit of the coconut palm...