cacao
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 5
/kəˈkaʊ/
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/kəˈkaʊ/ · /kəˈkɑː.əʊ/ · /kəˈkeɪ.əʊ/ · /kəˈkeɪ.oʊ/ · /kəˈkɑ.oʊ/
Definition of cacao
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
- (countable, uncountable)The seed of this tree, the cocoa bean.
-
(countable, rare, uncountable)Cocoa (hot drink).
““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.”
name
- A barangay of Hilongos, Leyte, Philippines.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. Doublet of cocoa.
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