the fatty seeds of a S American tree that are used in making cocoa, chocolate, and cocoa butter; a cocoa bean
any of the fatty seeds of a S American tree that are used in making cocoa, chocolate, and cocoa butter; a cocoa bean
these seeds considered collectively
the S American tree that bears fleshy pods containing these seeds: Theobroma cacao
[Spanish cacao from Nahuatl cacahuatl cacao beans]