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# cacao

«cacao» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tropical tree whose seeds, called cacao beans or cocoa…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (cacao — uncountable; a cacao tree, cacao beans)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cacao is a tropical tree whose seeds, called cacao beans or cocoa beans, are used to make chocolate and cocoa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cacao/#m1)

2) Cacao also means those beans or the raw powder made from them before much processing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cacao/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography lessons cacao is an example of a crop grown near the equator, in West Africa and South and Central America; the beans grow in big pods on the tree trunk. In history, the Maya and Aztecs made a bitter cacao drink. In food shops, «cacao» on a label usually means less processed than «cocoa».

### examples

- Chocolate is made from cacao beans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cacao/#x1)
- The cacao tree grows pods on its trunk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cacao/#x2)
- Ghana and Ivory Coast grow lots of cacao. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cacao/#x3)
- The Aztecs drank bitter cacao with chilli. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cacao/#x4)
- Cacao beans are dried in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cacao/#x5)
- This bar has seventy per cent cacao. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cacao/#x6)
- Each cacao pod holds about forty beans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cacao/#x7)

### note

Pronounced «kuh-KOW» or «kuh-KAY-oh». Cacao and cocoa are nearly the same; cocoa is the usual word for the powder and drink. Not the same as coconut or coca (a different plant).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cacao» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cacao/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.