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Definition of Chocolate tree
1. Noun. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans.
Specialized synonyms: Cacao Bean, Cocoa Bean
Group relationships: Genus Theobroma, Theobroma
Generic synonyms: Angiospermous Tree, Flowering Tree
Definition of Chocolate tree
1. Noun. The cacao tree ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chocolate Tree
Literary usage of Chocolate tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jamaica: Its Past and Present State by Phillippo, James Mursell (1843)
"The cocoa or chocolate-tree is a native of South America. It somewhat resembles
the English cherry-tree, and requires a good soil as well as a moist and ..."
2. Scenes from Every Land: Picturing the People, Natural Phenomena and Animal by Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1912)
"... THE TRUNK OF A CACAO (CHOCOLATE) TREE, PICHUCALCO, MEXICO Showing the peculiar
position in which the fruit grows. Cacao beans are still used as money in ..."
3. The Chocolate-plant: (Theobroma Cacao) and Its Products by Walter Baker & Company (1891)
"The engraving, which is here reproduced with fidelity, represents the chocolate-tree
with its comparatively large fruits or pods borne on ..."
4. The New American Orchardist, Or an Account of the Most Valuable Varieties of by W. Kendrick (1848)
"The chocolate tree is a native of South America, and of Mexico. ... The fresh
fruit of the chocolate tree, eaten raw, is highly antiscorbutic; and the nuts, ..."
5. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, William Swainson, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1837)
"Cacao, probably an aboriginal native of Brazil, though extensively cultivated in
other warm countries, is the fruit of the Theobroma or chocolate tree (ßg. ..."
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