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chocolate tree

noun

tropical American tree producing cacao beans

• Syn: ↑cacao, ↑cacao tree, ↑Theobroma cacao

• Hypernyms: ↑angiospermous tree, ↑flowering tree

• Hyponyms: ↑cacao bean, ↑cocoa bean

• Member Holonyms: ↑Theobroma, ↑genus Theobroma

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noun

: a cacao (Theobroma cacao)

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cacao (def. 1).

[1825-35]

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chocolate tree,

= cacao (def. 2). (Cf. ↑cacao)

Useful english dictionary. 2012.