Cacao

Definitions

1. A barangay of Hilongos, Leyte, Philippines.
2. A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
   countable, uncountable
3. The seed of this tree, the cocoa bean.
   countable, uncountable
4. Cocoa (hot drink).
   countable, rare, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Therefore they left Port à Paix just as the first streaks of gray were appearing in the east, depending on a good hot cup of cacao and a couple of bananas to nourish them sufficiently until they could enjoy⟳ the breakfast that Dave would prepare⟳ for them at the end⟳ of their morning’s share⟳ of the day’s trip⟳. […] “Doctor, we always say⟳ ‘cocoa’ in the north, but you and all these people where it grows say⟳ ‘cacao,’ I notice⟳. How is that?” asked Hal. / “There are four very distinct vegetable growths that have⟳ names so much alike that they are constantly mixed in the minds of those who are not botanists or do not know⟳ them in nature,” the Doctor began. “These are: Cacao berries, Coca leaves, Coco roots, and Cocoa nuts.[…]””

“Cacao was copiously used at their feasts, being colored with the red seeds of the achiote, or arnotto (Bixa orellana Linnæus), so that it resembled blood. At the festivals an intoxicating beer of corn was also copiously used and the rolled leaves of tobacco were smoked. […] And the Indians, both men and women, continued to drink⟳ the above-mentioned beverage, going and coming with it, and in the course of this drinking there were brought large cups of cacao prepared as they are accustomed to drink⟳ it.”

““I wouldn’t mind⟳ something to drink⟳,” Niko Daun said clearly. “You say⟳ you’ve got local cacao?” […] He set⟳ down the mug of cacao from which he’d been sipping with evident approval.”

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