Copra is the dried meat, or kernel, of the coconut used to extract coconut oil. The earliest evidence of the extracting and usage of coconut oil from copra is found in early Tamil literature from the 1st century AD. The word originated from the Tamil word Kopparai. Coconut oil is extracted from it and this has made copra an important agricultural ... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copra
dried sections of the meat of the coconut, the kernel of the fruit of the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera). Copra is valued for the coconut oil ... [5 related articles] Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/140
Co'pra noun [ Malayálam koppara or Hind. khoprā .] (Com.) The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed. [ Written also cobra , copperah , coppra .] Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/157