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cacao bean

American  
Or cocoa bean

noun

  1. a seed of the cacao tree.


Etymology

Origin of cacao bean

First recorded in 1830–40


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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 the cacao bean is grown in tropical countries, it is there that we must look for the first attempts at manufacturing from it a drink or a foodstuff.

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

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