Results for cacao

Definitions of cacao:

part of speech: noun

The chocolate- tree, from the seeds of which chocolate is made.

part of speech: noun

The chocolate tree.

part of speech: noun

A small evergreen tree, from the seeds of which cocoa and chocolate are made.

Usage examples for cacao:

• We are all blazing with cacao planting zeal, and we already have over six hundred plants set out. "The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson", Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

• We stopped therefore at the house of a gentleman engaged in the cultivation of cacao "On the Banks of the Amazon", W.H.G. Kingston

• His recruits, even as they drilled, were taught to plant cacao "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25)", Robert Louis Stevenson Other: Andrew Lang

• But a large portion of it was subjected to cultivation, and bloomed with plantations of cacao of the sweet potato, and the different products of a tropical clime, evincing agricultural knowledge as well as industry in the population. "History-of-the-Conquest-of-Peru-with-a-preliminary-view-of-the-civilization-of-the-Incas", Prescott, William Hickling