How did Ibn Battuta describe the 'Coconut'?
1. Nut like grapes.
2. Nut like a man's head.
3. Nut like a Pumpkin.
4. Nut like an animal head.

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Ibn Battuta, a traveller from Morocco described coconut as "Nuts like a man's head". He described the coconut and the paan, two kinds of plant produce that were completely unfamiliar to his audience.

His account- These trees are among the most peculiar trees in kind and most astonishing in habit. They look exactly like date-palms, without any difference between them except that the one produces nuts as its fruits and the other produces dates. The nut of a coconut tree resembles a man’s head, for in it are what look like two eyes and a mouth, and the inside of it when it is green looks like the brain, and attached to it is a fibre which looks like hair. They make from this cords with which they sew up ships instead of (using) iron nails, and they (also) make from it cables for vessels.