cocoa : Idioms & Phrases

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cocoa bean

  • noun seed of the cacao tree; ground roasted beans are source of chocolate
    cacao bean.
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cocoa butter

  • noun a yellow-white fat from cocoa beans
  • noun the vegetable fat from the cacao that is extracted from chocolate liquor; the basis for white chocolate
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cocoa palm

  • noun tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
    coconut; coco palm; coconut palm; Cocos nucifera; coconut tree; coco.
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Co"coa, Co"coa palm` noun (Also<
  • Cocoa
  • Cocoa palm
)
Etymology
Sp. & Pg. coco cocoanut, in Sp. also, cocoa palm. The Portuguese name is said to have been given from the monkeylike face at the base of the nut, fr. Pg. coco a bugbear, an ugly mask to frighten children. Cf., however, Gr. the cocoa palm and its fruit, , , a kind of Egyptian palm.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.
Co"coa noun
Etymology
Corrupted fr. cacao.
Definitions
  1. A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells.
Webster 1913

cocoa plum

  • noun small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit
    icaco; coco plum; Chrysobalanus icaco; coco plum tree.
  • noun plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves; tropical American
    coco plum; icaco.
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cocoa powder

  • noun the powdery remains of chocolate liquor after cocoa butter is removed; used in baking and in low fat and low calorie recipes and as a flavoring for ice cream
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Cocoa shells

  • the husks which separate from the cacao seeds in preparing them for use.
Webster 1913

dutch-processed cocoa

  • noun cocoa powder treated with a mild alkalizing agent (such as baking soda)
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sea cocoa

Sea" co"coa
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut.
Webster 1913