cacao

[ UK /kˈæka‍ʊ/ ]
[ US /kəˈkeɪoʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. tropical American tree producing cacao beans
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How To Use cacao In A Sentence

  • Late in the day, just after we had feasted on the fruits of a wild cacao, we came upon a three-toed sloth climbing slowly through the upper branches of a cecropia tree. One River
  • It introduces, maintains, characterizes, and evaluates germplasm collections of banana, plantain, sapodilla, mamey sapote, cacao, Garcinia, Annona, and bamboo.
  • But chocolate is manufactured from the cocoa plant Theobroma cacao, which literally translates as ‘food of the gods’.
  • This type of mole gets everyone excited because it's made with chocolate, but cacao is only one ingredient in the mix of four kinds of chillies and musky spices that create its distinct and complex flavour.
  • Unlike cacao and coffee, yerba mate was not a domestic plant when first encountered by Europeans.
  • Both the Mayans and Aztecs believed the cacao bean had magical, or even divine, properties18), suitable for use in the most sacred19) rituals of birth, marriage and death.
  • A habitual arrogância com que Angola encara críticas, esperando que se adaptem as leis internacionais à realidade angolana e não o contrário, apenas tem dificultado mais o processo de certificação da TAAG que a autorizará a voar para a Europa de novo. Global Voices in English » Angola: National flag carrier removed from EU blacklist
  • Some coffee and cacao are grown for export.
  • The leaves of mangos and cacaos do the reverse, turning scarlet when they first sprout.
  • So effective is cacao as a pick-me-up that it is being embraced in the party crowd as a healthy alternative to synthetic dance drugs. Times, Sunday Times
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