noun. An evergreen tropical American tree (Theobroma cacao) having leathery, ellipsoid, ten-ribbed fruits borne on the trunks and older branches.

noun. The seed of this plant, used in making chocolate, cocoa, and cocoa butter.

noun. The chocolate-tree, Theobroma Cacao, natural order Sterculiaceæ.

noun. A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared.

noun. A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.

noun. This tree's seed, the cocoa bean

noun. tropical American tree producing cacao beans

"a brief survey of the history of cocoa and chocolate, I shall begin with the growing of the cacao bean, and follow the _cacao_ in its career until it becomes the finished product ready for consumption."

cacao-pod disease  crème de cacao  

cocoa  

angiospermous tree  flowering tree  

cacao bean  cocoa bean  

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