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CACAO

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Dictionary entry overview: What does cacao mean?

• CACAO (noun)
The noun CACAO has 1 sense:

1. tropical American tree producing cacao beans

Familiarity information: CACAO used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CACAO (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Tropical American tree producing cacao beans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cacao; cacao tree; chocolate tree; Theobroma cacao

Hypernyms ("cacao" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cacao"):

cacao bean; cocoa bean (seed of the cacao tree; ground roasted beans are source of chocolate)

Holonyms ("cacao" is a member of...):

genus Theobroma; Theobroma (cacao plants)

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