cocoa-tree

• “While upon their sunlit summits stirr'd the tufted cocoa-tree —”

  The Voyage of Magellan

• “I may here note that a cocoa-tree is easily climbed with a bit of rope or a handkerchief.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “The bread-tree grows in the Philippine islands, and principally in those of Guam and Tinian, as the cocoa-tree grows in the Indies.”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “These frail vessels are composed of thin cocoa-tree logs, lashed together, and big enough to carry one, or, at most, two persons.”

  The Illustrated London Reading Book

• “The beverage known as cocoa comes from the seeds of the cocoa-tree, which are roasted like the coffee berries to develop the aroma.”

  A Practical Physiology

• “A handle is carved out of a whale's tooth, and insets of baleen, silver, cocoa-tree, or ebony, give variety and finish.”

  The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales

• “For the cocoa-tree and the island man are both lovers and neighbours of the surf.”

  In the South Seas

• “I followed my uncle closely, and we had no difficulty in shooting three of the great pigeons, which Ebo pounced upon and carried off in triumph, and in a few minutes they were roasting upon sticks, while our black cook busied himself in climbing a cocoa-tree, from which he detached half a dozen nuts, each of which came down with a tremendous thud.”

  Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas

• “The cocoa-tree, the stem of which is slenderer than elsewhere, and the banana-tree here shoot up with wonderful rapidity and vigour.”

  Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century

• “The cocoa-tree was cultivated by the aboriginal inhabitants of South America, particularly in Mexico, where, according to Humboldt, it was reared by Montezuma.”

  The Book of Household Management

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