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Definition of Cocoa
1. Noun. A beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot.
Generic synonyms: Beverage, Drink, Drinkable, Potable
2. Noun. Powder of ground roasted cacao beans with most of the fat removed.
Terms within: Cacao Bean, Cocoa Bean
Substance meronyms: Chocolate, Drinking Chocolate, Hot Chocolate
Specialized synonyms: Criollo
Definition of Cocoa
1. n. A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.
2. n. A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells.
Definition of Cocoa
1. chocolate [n -S] - See also: chocolate
Medical Definition of Cocoa
1. A powder prepared from the roasted kernels of the ripe seed of Theobroma cacao (family Sterculiaceae); used in the preparation of cocoa syrup, a flavoring agent. See: cacao. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cocoa
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