cacao
可可,可可西里,可可豆,可口可乐
Definitions
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plural ca·ca·os.
- : a small tropical American evergreen tree, Theobroma cacao, cultivated for its seeds, the source of cocoa, chocolate, etc.
- : Also cocoa. the fruit or seeds of this tree.
Examples
In 2010, we scaled up our cacao product output in a major way.
It’s very important to produce efficiently, because cacao products are commodities and the cost of production is the most important thing.
In the mountainous Talamanca region in the south, communities of Bribri and Boruca people live off the land, safeguarding many ancestral ingredients, while also growing cacao for wider consumption.
As a chocolate maker in the 21st century, we carry the responsibility to correct some of the historical injustices which have taken place in the cacao industry.
We would dream about someday being on a cacao farm and picking the beans to make chocolate, a dream our grandparents were never able to fully realize for themselves.
These villages used to harvest rubber, cacao, palm oil, and coffee beans.
Add vodka, creme de cacao, buttermilk, three drops of red food coloring, and vanilla extract to a cocktail shaker with ice.
Mocha is the offspring of the marriage of two plain-looking beans: coffee and cacao.
Even so, some experts predict a global shortage of cacao beans as demand keeps growing.
I only wish somebody would pay me 10 a day for taking care of cacao, and I could leave literature to others.
They employ themselves in raising cattle, making sugar and honey, and extracting oil from the cacao fruit.
Corn-cobs they ground, mixed cacao with the powder, and baked the mixture on the fire.
Cacao forms an important article of food, both as a drink and as bread.
I bought what little cacao they had; the rest of their plunder they brought ashore and divided among our people.