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Definition of Cocoa

1. Noun. A beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot.

2. Noun. Powder of ground roasted cacao beans with most of the fat removed.

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. Proper noun. (computing) an object-oriented programming API for Mac OS X ¹

2. Noun. the dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made ¹

3. Noun. an unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking. ¹

4. Noun. a hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar ¹

5. Noun. a cup or mug of this drink ¹

6. Noun. a light to medium brown colour ¹

7. Adjective. of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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

cockteasing cockup cockups cockweed cocky cocky's joy cocky-leeky coclique coclustering coco

coco-de-mer coco de macao coco palm coco plum coco plum tree cocoa (current term) cocoa bean cocoa beans cocoa palm cocoa plum

cocoa powder cocoalike cocoanut cocoanuts cocoas cocobola cocobolas cocobolo

Literary usage of Cocoa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"cocoa shells have provi-d to be a useful addition to feeding stuffs, ... For the manufacture of the various forms of prepared cocoa, the nibs are ground by ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"The shells form a low-priced product extensively used, after grinding, in the cheaper grades of cocoa and chocolate, and occasionally, under the name of ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"THE MILK IN THE cocoa-NUT. Br GRANT ALLEN. FOR many centuries the occult problem how to account for the milk in the cocoa-nut has awakened the profoundest ..."

4. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"Chocolate and cocoa, showing the various stages of manufactures: roasted cocoa, ... cocoa, or cacao nuts. Specimens of the ripe fruit from Trinidad and ..."

5. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"cocoa starch is not very readily coloured blue by iodine; it consists of very small, ... If cocoa or chocolate on boiling with water becomes thick or pasty, ..."

6. Adventure Guide to Trinidad & Tobago by Kathleen O'Donnell, S Harry Pefkaros (2000)
"cocoa Throughout Trinidad and in the Roxborough area of Tobago you'll see small, ... Or at least this is its beginning, cocoa. In Trinidad, the heaviest ..."

7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1891)
"There is no Nourishment in Tea or Coffee, but plenty in cocoa especially in VAN HOUTEN'S THE DRINK QUESTION is ever coming to the front. ..."

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