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Abstract
Common or vernacular names of plants are christened in vernacular language by
common people over a long past. These names emerge out from the mist of times and are passed
by word of mouth over generations. Such names are therefore enriched with the experiences,
observations and wisdom of the concerned human society. These hidden secretes are hardly
earthed by the scientific community, particularly by botanists, as they have perforce been forced
to follow the rules of ICBN. Coconut palm is widely distributed and hence received a vast array
of names worldwide. Moreover, its nativity has remained a subject of debate and object of many
investigations they are hence analyzed etymologically in this communication. Its nativity, history
and migration apart from the root words for coining names are high lightened. Some hard
evidences have been also comparatively discussed to lend support while arriving at its nativity as
Indo-Pacific vis-a-vis Asian.