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Definition: Cacao |
CacaoNoun1. Tropical American tree producing cacao beans. 2. Seed of the cacao tree; ground roasted beans are source of chocolate. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cacao" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Cocoa beans and cocoa products. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A tree of the family Sterculiaceae (or Byttneriaceae), usually Theobroma cacao, or its seeds, which after fermentation and roasting, yield cocoa and chocolate. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) is a small (4.5-7.5 m), evergreen tree of the family Sterculiaceae, native to South and Central America. Its beans are used to make cocoa and chocolate.
The tree grows naturally at around 1,000 feet, needing a humid climate with regular rainfall and good soil. The seeds, usually called beans, come in a large fruit called a cacao pod, ovoid and 15-30 cm long and 8-10 cm wide. The pod holds 20 to 60 seeds in a white pulp, 300 seeds produce around 1 kg of cocoa paste. Each seed is mainly fat (40-50%, cacao butter).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cacao."
Synonyms: CacaoSynonyms: cacao tree (n), chocolate tree (n), cocoa bean (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cacao |
| English words defined with "cacao": Broma ♦ Cacaine, cacao tree, chocolate, Chocolate nut, chocolate tree, cocoa, cocoa bean, Cocoa shells, creme de cacao ♦ genus Theobroma, grasshopper ♦ Sterculiaceous ♦ Theobroma, Theobroma cacao, Theobromic, Theobromine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cacao": CURATELLA AMERICANA ♦ QUARARIBEA ♦ Santa Maria ♦ THEOBROMA BICOLOR ♦ Zukurate. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cacao": Cocoa. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cacao" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (cocoa), French (cacao, cocoa), Italian (cacao, cocoa), Manx (cacao), Romanian (cacao, cocoa), Spanish (cacao, cocoa). |
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 | Martin Aitkin (left), director of the M&M Mars, Inc., Almirante Farm, and a local farmer assess damage from a large, dry witches'-broom growth in a cacao tree at the Luz de Maria farm in Uruçuca, Brazil. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Spores released from the fan-shaped basidiocarp of this inch-wide Crinipellis perniciosa mushroom can infect cacao trees and drastically reduce yields of the beans from which cocoa and chocolate products are made. Photo Scott Bauer. Credit: USDA ARS News. |
 | Theobroma Cacao L. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
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Economic History | Guinea | Export of palm products was 4,260 kg 1999. Cacao accounted for 2,996.7 metric tons of exports. (references) |
Ecuador | Agriculture (10.5% of GDP): Products--Bananas, seafood, coffee, cacao, sugar, rice, corn, and livestock. (references) | |
Ecuador | Trade: Exports--$4,845 million: petroleum , bananas, shrimp, coffee, cacao, hemp, wood, fish, cut flowers. (references) | |
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| "Cacao" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cacao" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Cacao, PR (comunidad, FIPS 10048) |
Expressions using "cacao": cacao bean ♦ cacao butter ♦ cacao moth ♦ cacao tree ♦ creme de cacao ♦ Theobroma cacao. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "cacao": cacao-tree. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cacao"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kakao (cocoa). (various references) | |
Arabic | الكاكاو. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | какао (cocoa). (various references) | |
Chinese | 恶. (various references) | |
Czech | kakao (cocoa). (various references) | |
Danish | kakao (cocoa). (various references) | |
Dutch | cacao (cocoa). (various references) | |
Farsi | کاکاءو (Chocolate, Coca, Cocoa). (various references) | |
Finnish | kaakao (cocoa). (various references) | |
French | cacao. (various references) | |
German | Kakao (cocoa). (various references) | |
Greek | κακάο (cocoa). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kakaóbab (cacao beans, cocoa bean). (various references) | |
Italian | cacao (cocoa). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | カーボン紙 (black currant, cactus, Caesar, Cairo, car lease, car life, car race, car radio, carbon paper, carcase, carcass, Carlton, carmine, carport, Casio, Cassiopeia, Cassisliqueur, chaos, chiropractic, chiropractor, cocktail, cocktail dress, cocktail glass, cocktail lounge, cocktail party, couch potato, counseling, counselor, count, countdown, counter, counter attack, counter display, counterblow, counter-propagation, counterpunch, counterpurchase, count-out, cowboy, cowboy hat, cowhide, curl, Curlash, curler, curling, curve, Kahn, Kaiser, Kamasutra, Kashmir, kinesics, kite, kymograph, rustle, television addict). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | カカオ . (various references) | |
Manx | cacao. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acaocay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cacau (cocoa). (various references) | |
Romanian | cacao (cocoa), boabe de cacao. (various references) | |
Russian | какао (cocoa). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kakao (cocoa). (various references) | |
Spanish | cacao (cocoa). (various references) | |
Swedish | kakao (cocoa). (various references) | |
Thai | เมล็"ของต้นโกโก้, ต้นโกโก้. (various references) | |
Turkish | kakao (cocoa). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | какао (cocoa). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | THEOBROMA CACAO. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cacao": cacaos. (additional references) | |
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"Cacao" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acca, Accaron, acco, accomo, Accval, Akao, bacau, bacio, Caac, cabai, Caca, cacad, cacah, Cacak, caccia, cachar, Cacho, cacia, Cacif, caco, Cadagon, Cagccat, caja, calcar, Capco, Carajo, Cascio, catao, cca, Ccaccat, Ccaod, Ceao, Cebaco, Cebado, ceca, cecal, Ceccano, Ceccato, Cecco, Ceka, Cencio, Cgca, cica, Cico, cnca, coaca, Falcao, Kacou, Nakao, sacau, Sciaco. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "cacao" (pronounced 'Ca*ca"o'): Macao. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-o" | |
-1 letter: caca, coca. | |
-2 letters: oca. | |
-3 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-o" | |
+1 letter: cacaos, cloaca, macaco. | |
+2 letters: caracol, carioca, caroach, cloacae, cloacal, cloacas, curacao, curacoa, macacos, toccata. | |
+3 letters: accolade, advocacy, aircoach, ascocarp, cachalot, caracole, caracols, carcajou, cariocas, catacomb, charcoal, coachman, coalsack, coatrack, curacaos, curacoas, focaccia, maccaboy, staccato, stoccata, toccatas. | |
+4 letters: accolades, accompany, accordant, acrobatic, ascocarps, autocracy, cachalots, canonical, capacious, capacitor, caracoled, caracoles, carbachol, carcajous, carcinoma, caroaches, carpaccio, carvacrol, catabolic, catacombs, catatonic, charcoals, chawbacon, coachable, coalsacks, coatracks, cocaptain, cockamamy, cyclorama, focaccias, macaronic, maccaboys, staccatos, stoccatas. | |
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