plantCoconutNatureCoconut as a plant people have named and used. Hard shell, water gift, palm milk — one living kind, not a single symbol.Coconut is historically related to Oil.In Burnell's Hobson-Jobson, Coconut is listed among the trade lemmas and sits with Oil.from Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke) · Hobson-Jobson, 1886 (new ed. 1903)historically related to · sourced · documentedsourcesHobson-Jobson · Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell (ed. William Crooke)Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell, Hobson-Jobson (new ed. William Crooke, 1903).