Cacao

Definition of cacao:

part of speech: noun

The chocolate- tree, from the seeds of which chocolate is made.

part of speech: noun

A small evergreen tree, from the seeds of which cocoa and chocolate are made.

Usage examples for cacao:

• Principal products, sugar, molasses, tobacco, cotton, coffee, cacao fruits, mahogany and live stock. "Alden's Handy Atlas of the World", John B. Alden.

• Here was a cargo of cinchona bark, there another of cacao and further on, by no means the least important, were boat- loads of fresh vegetables and fruits to supply the great assembly. "The West Indies and the Spanish Main [1899]", James Rodway.

• This method of treatment is probably the reason that the cacao trees in the Philippines never attain a greater height than eight or ten feet, while in their native soil they frequently reach thirty, and sometimes even forty feet. "The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes", Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes.