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==== Non-culinary ====
[[Image:srilanka coconut fibre.jpg|thumb|Extracting the fibre from the husk (Sri Lanka).]]
* Coconut water can be used as an intravenous fluid.
* Coir (the fiber from the husk of the coconut) is used in ropes, mats, brushes, caulking boats and as stuffing fibre; it is also used extensively in horticulture for making potting compost.
* Coconut oil can be rapidly processed and extracted as a fully organic product from fresh coconut flesh, and used in many ways including as a medicine and in cosmetics, or as a direct replacement for diesel fuel.
* Copra is the dried meat of the seed and, after further processing, is a source of low grade coconut oil.
* The leaves provide materials for baskets and roofing thatch.
* Palmwood comes from the trunk and is increasingly being used as an ecologically-sound substitute for endangered hardwoods. It has several applications, particularly in furniture and specialized construction (notably in Manila's Coconut Palace).
* Hawaiians hollowed the trunk to form drums, containers, or even small canoes.
* The husk and shells can be used for fuel and are a good source of charcoal.
* Dried half coconut shells with husks are used to buff floors. In the Philippines, it is known as "bunot", and in Jamaica it is simply called "coconut brush"
* In the Philippines, dried half shells are used as a music instrument in a folk dance called ''maglalatik'', a traditional dance about the conflicts for coconut meat within the Spanish era
* Shirt buttons can be carved out of dried coconut shell. Coconut buttons are often used for Hawaiian Aloha shirts.
* The stiff leaflet midribs can be used to make cooking skewers, kindling arrows, or are bound into bundles, brooms and brushes.
* The roots are used as a dye, a mouthwash, and a medicine for dysentery. A frayed-out piece of root can also be used as a toothbrush.
[[Image:Srilanka coconut rug.jpg|thumb|left|Making a rug from coconut fibre.]]
* The leaves can be woven to create effective roofing materials, or reed mats.
* Fresh inner coconut husk can be rubbed on the lens of snorkeling goggles to prevent fogging during use.
* Dried coconut leaves can be burned to ash, which can be harvested for lime.
* Dried half coconut shells are used as the bodies of musical instruments, including the Chinese yehu and banhu, and the Vietnamese đàn gáo.
* Coconut is also commonly used as a herbal remedy in Pakistan to treat bites from rats.
* In World War II, coastwatcher scout Biuki Gasa was the first of two from the Solomon Islands to reach the shipwrecked, wounded, and exhausted crew of Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 commanded by future U.S. president John F. Kennedy. Gasa suggested, for lack of paper, delivering by dugout canoe a message inscribed on a husked coconut shell. This coconut was later kept on the president's desk, and is now in the John F. Kennedy Library.
* Coconut trunks are used for building small bridges, preferred for their straightness, strength and salt resistance

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