cacao

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  1. noun An evergreen tropical American tree (Theobroma cacao) having leathery, ellipsoid, ten-ribbed fruits borne on the trunks and older branches. Also called chocolate tree.
  2. noun The seed of this plant, used in making chocolate, cocoa, and cocoa butter. Also called cacao bean, cocoa bean.

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  1. Spanish, from Nahuatl cacahuatl.

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  1. = D. Danish Swedish G. Russian, etc., kakao = French cacao = Italian caccao, from Spanish cacao = Portuguese cacao, cacau, from Mexican cacauatl, cacao (according to Señor Jesus Sanchez, orig. a Nahuatl word). Cf. Spanish cacahual, cacaotal = Portuguese cacaual, a plantation of chocolate-trees; Portuguese cacaueiro = French cacaoyer, a chocolate-tree. See cocoa.
 

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