[Sp. coquillo, Pg. coquilho, dim. of coco coco-nut.] The Physic nut, Curcas purgans, a native of tropical America, the seeds of which yield an oil used as a purgative.
[a. 1622. R. Hawkins, Voy. S. Sea (1847), 51. In the kingdome of Chile, and in Brasill, is another kinde of these, which they call coquillos,… and are as big as wal-nuts.]
1851. Exhibition Catal., II. 1430. (Mexico) A bottle of oil, called oil of coquillo, is also exhibited.
