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
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
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
In this process, by the mere act of grinding, the miracle is performed of converting the brittle fragments of the cacao bean into a chocolate-coloured fluid.
From Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer by Knapp, Arthur William
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