cacao bean
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cacao bean
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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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
It has taken them 2 years to make 574 bars, which are sold in individual wooden boxes filled with cacao bean husks and numbered by harvest.
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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