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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cocoa bean
noun
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cocoa bean

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

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cocoa bean

n. seed of the cacao tree; ground roasted beans are source of chocolate [syn: cacao bean]

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Cocoa bean

The cocoa bean, also cacao bean or simply cocoa or cacao , is the dried and fully fermented fatty seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids and cocoa butter can be extracted. They are the basis of chocolate, as well as many Mesoamerican foods such as mole and tejate.