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cacao
/ kəˈkɑːəʊ; -ˈkeɪəʊ /
noun
- a small tropical American evergreen tree, Theobroma cacao, having yellowish flowers and reddish-brown seed pods from which cocoa and chocolate are prepared: family Sterculiaceae
- cacao beananother name for cocoa bean
- cacao butteranother name for cocoa butter
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Example Sentences
These villages used to harvest rubber, cacao, palm oil, and coffee beans.
Add vodka, creme de cacao, buttermilk, three drops of red food coloring, and vanilla extract to a cocktail shaker with ice.
Mocha is the offspring of the marriage of two plain-looking beans: coffee and cacao.
Even so, some experts predict a global shortage of cacao beans as demand keeps growing.
I only wish somebody would pay me 10 a day for taking care of cacao, and I could leave literature to others.
They employ themselves in raising cattle, making sugar and honey, and extracting oil from the cacao fruit.
Corn-cobs they ground, mixed cacao with the powder, and baked the mixture on the fire.
Cacao forms an important article of food, both as a drink and as bread.
I bought what little cacao they had; the rest of their plunder they brought ashore and divided among our people.
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