Cocoa
English Meaning
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.
- A powder made from cacao seeds after they have been fermented, roasted, shelled, ground, and freed of most of their fat.
- A beverage made by mixing this powder with sugar in hot water or milk.
- A moderate brown to reddish brown.