“de mer”

The following 4 entries include the term de mer.

bêche-de-mer

noun

mal de mer

noun

brochet de mer

noun

: a snook (Centropomus undecimalis)

coco-de-mer

noun, sometimes capitalized

: a very tall, slow-growing palm (Lodoicea maldivica) native to the Seychelles Islands that has large, fan-shaped leaves used for thatching and a very large, fibrous fruit which contains usually one or sometimes two or three bilobed nuts and may weigh as much as 50 pounds (23 kilograms)


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