cacao nut
noun
The seed of the cacao tree; (occasionally also) the pod containing this.
- The term is strictly a misnomer: the cacao seed lacks a true shell, the outer layer or seed coat becoming hard only when the seed is fermented and dried, and the leathery pod itself is not technically a nut..
Origin
Early 17th century; earliest use found in Samuel Purchas.
- tried
- tried and tested (or tried and trusted or tried and true)
- triene
- triennial
- triennially
- epigastric
- epigastrium
- epigeal
- epigene
- epigenesis
- epigenesist
- epigenetic
- epigenetically
- epigeneticist
- epigenetics
- epiglottal
- epiglottic
- epiglottis
- epigone
- epigram
- epigrammatic
- epigrammatically
- epigrammatist
- epigrammatize
- epigraph