cacao bean

American  

Or cocoa bean

noun

1. a seed of the cacao tree.

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Etymology

Origin of cacao bean

First recorded in 1830–40

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Example Sentences

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cacao bean

But it was silky and soothing, a balm for a throat scraped raw by jagged shards of cacao bean shells.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2015

To get any real benefits, you need to eat powdered, unsweetened raw cocoa or even cacao nibs, the heart of the cacao bean.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 2015

Sloane also helped popularize the drinking of chocolate, made from the cacao bean, in England.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

Each To’ak bar comes with a cacao bean in the center to remind you that chocolate comes from a tree—not a factory.

From Forbes ● Nov. 28, 2014

On a vine grows the monkey cacao bean, which these animals eagerly devour.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston

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