cacao
Syllables: ca·cao/kəˈkaʊ/US/kəˈkaʊ/
cacao noun: a tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
Noun
cacao (countable and uncountable, plural cacaos)
- A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
- The seed of this tree, the cocoa bean.
- Cocoa (hot drink).
- 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...1894, Eugene Murray-Aaron, The Butterfly Hunters in the Caribbees, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pages 146 and 242
- 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...1907 August, C[arl] V[ilhelm] Hartman, “Archeological Researches on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica”, in W[illiam] J[acob] Holland, editor, Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, volume III, number 1...
Proper noun capitalized: Cacao
Cacao
- A barangay of Hilongos, Leyte, Philippines.
cacao meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Gujarati
cacao in Urdu
- Theobroma cacao tree
- کوکو koko
cacao in Malayalam
- Theobroma cacao tree
- കൊക്കോ kokkō
cacao in Kannada
- Theobroma cacao seed — see also cocoa bean
- ಕೋಕೋ kōkō
- Theobroma cacao tree
- ಕೋಕೋ kōkō
cacao in Gujarati
- Theobroma cacao tree
- કોકો koko
More languagesFewer languages
- cacao in Tagalog
- kakaw
- cacao in Arabic
- كَاكَاو kākāw, شَجَرَة اَلْكَاكَاو
- cacao in Malay
- koko
- cacao in Indonesian
- kakao
- cacao in Persian
- کاکائو kâkâ'o
- cacao in Vietnamese
- cacao, ca-cao
Examples of cacao in a sentence
- “These are: Cacao berries, Coca leaves, Coco roots, and Cocoa nuts.[…]”1894, Eugene Murray-Aaron, The Butterfly Hunters in the Caribbees, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pages 146 and 242:
- 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.1907 August, C[arl] V[ilhelm] Hartman, “Archeological Researches on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica”, in W[illiam] J[acob] Holland, editor...
- “You say you’ve got local cacao?” […] He set down the mug of cacao from which he’d been sipping with evident approval.1993 November, David Drake, The Sharp End (The Hammer’s Slammers Series; 6), Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, pages 170 and 175:
Forms of cacao
| plural | cacaos |
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Origin of cacao
From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. Doublet of cocoa.
Words formed from cacao
- cacaine
- cacao bean
- cacao butter
- Cacao yellow mosaic virus
Phrases with cacao
Words that rhyme with cacao
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Questions about cacao
- What does cacao mean?
- Cacao means a tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
- What is cacao in Urdu?
- Cacao in Urdu is کوکو (koko). See Cacao meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use cacao in a sentence?
- “These are: Cacao berries, Coca leaves, Coco roots, and Cocoa nuts.[…]”
- What part of speech is cacao?
- Cacao can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce cacao?
- Cacao is pronounced /kəˈkaʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cacao?
- The plural of cacao is cacaos.
Words near cacao in the dictionary
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