Definition of Cocoa bean

1. Noun. Seed of the cacao tree; ground roasted beans are source of chocolate.

Exact synonyms: Cacao Bean
Substance meronyms: Chocolate, Cocoa, Creme De Cacao
Generic synonyms: Cacao, Cacao Tree, Chocolate Tree, Theobroma Cacao

Definition of Cocoa bean

1. Noun. seed of the cocoa plant; used to make chocolate, cocoa and cocoa butter ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocoa Bean

cockup
cockups
cockweed
cocky
cocky's joy
cocky-leeky
coclique
coclustering
coco
coco-de-mer
coco de macao
coco palm
coco plum
coco plum tree
cocoa
cocoa bean
cocoa beans
cocoa palm
cocoa plum
cocoa powder
cocoalike
cocoanut
cocoanuts
cocoas
cocobola
cocobolas
cocobolo
cocobolos

Literary usage of Cocoa bean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller (1906)
"... cocoa bean. Chocolate and Cocoa are products of the "beans" or seeds of several small trees, natives of tropical America, of which Theobroma Cacao L. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1907)
"Papers read by title : THE cocoa bean SITUATION IN THE SUMMER OF 1007 FROM A ... "No doubt, the failure of the cocoa bean crop this year is chiefly ..."

3. Academy Notes by Henry Blackburn, Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (1889)
"... standard English article 21 00 " "The procesa of preparation concentrates the nourishing and stimulating principle] of the cocoa bean. ..."

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