cacao
/kəˈkɑːəʊ/noun
(pl. -os)
1
- mass noun bean-like seeds from which cocoa, cocoa butter, and chocolate are made可可豆。
2
- the small tropical American evergreen tree which bears these seeds, which are contained in large oval pods that grow on the trunk, now cultivated mainly in West Africa可可树。
2.1
- Theobroma cacao, family Sterculiaceae.拉丁名Theobroma cacao,梧桐科。
词源
mid 16th cent.: via Spanish from Nahuatl cacaua.