chocolate tree

noun

1. cacao.

Word History and Origins

Origin of chocolate tree¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

Inside the hut are shelves packed with Le Cirque chocolates, marzipan horses, holiday glitter, chocolate tree ornaments, Châteauneuf-du-Pape tea towels, cookbooks — Zoe Nathan's "Huckleberry," for example — and boxes of festive Christmas crackers.

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But the delicate “chocolate tree,” Theobroma cacao, is in peril.

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Cocoa, kō′kō, n. the seed of the cacao or chocolate tree: a beverage made from the seeds crushed and ground.

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She jumped down from the chocolate tree as she spoke, and danced round Honey, clapping her hands with excitement.

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He kindly gave me a quantity of young tea-plants and chocolate trees.

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