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
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
Labels on gourmet chocolate bars often state where the beans came from and how much cacao bean is in the chocolate.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2014
As I mentioned above, the cacao bean is covered with a fruity pulp.
From Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer by Knapp, Arthur William
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