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Definition of Cacao tree

1. Noun. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cacao Tree

cabstands cab fare caca cacafogo cacafogos Cacajao Cacalia Cacalia javanica Cacalia lutea cacao

cacao cacaos cacao bean cacao moth cacao oil cacao tree (current term) cacas Cacatua Cacatua galerita CaCC

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Literary usage of Cacao tree

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1. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1892)
"By long cultivation the cacao-tree had developed a larger seed, ... borrowing a well-known phrase Cacao-tree. of Pliny, that great changes in human life ..."

2. The Youth's Companion, Or, An Historical Dictionary: Consisting of Articles by Ezra Sampson (1813)
"cacao tree, the tree that produces the chocolate nut, and is a native of South America. ... The cacao tree bears two crops a year, yielding at each, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"The ash of several parte of the cacao- tree, from the plantations of Manado, in Celebes, has been examined by Bost van Ton nin gen (Rep. Chim. app. ii. ..."

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