Meaning & use
Cacao
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The seed of a tropical tree that is fermented and processed to produce cocoa and chocolate.
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Farmers harvested the ripe cacao pods and left the beans to ferment for a week.
The chocolate bar listed seventy percent cacao content on the wrapper.
A note on using this word
The word comes from the Nahuatl 'cacahuatl'; it refers to the raw plant and bean, while 'cocoa' usually describes the processed product.
Words with a similar meaning
cocoa bean
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