| n. | 1. | (Bot.) A tall palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera) as its fruit. 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. It is widely planted throughout the tropics, and in some locations as an ornamental tree. | |||
| 1. | 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.
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| Noun | 1. | cocoa - a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot |
| 2. | cocoa - powder of ground roasted cocao beans with most of the fat removed |