English▸ noun
(plural macapunos)
a variety of coconut whose fruit has soft jelly-like flesh and little or no liquid. ▪ [mass noun] the flesh of a macapuno coconut, used in Southeast Asian cooking:
the two flavours that I highly recommend are the ube and macapuno.
– ORIGIN late 19th century: Tagalog, from maka- prefix + puno ‘full’, so called because the flesh almost fills the fruit's interior cavity.