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

Example Sentences

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

This is because half the cacao bean consists of a fat which is liquid at 90° F., a temperature which is reached in the shade in tropical countries.

From Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer by Knapp, Arthur William