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cocoa

powder made from cacao seeds, a hot drink made from cocoa powder and milk

Not to be confused with:

coca – a South American tree with leaves that contain cocaine

coco – coconut or coconut palm

co·coa

(kō′kō)

a. A powder made from cacao seeds after they have been fermented, roasted, shelled, ground, and freed of most of their fat.

b. See hot chocolate.

2. A moderate brown to reddish brown.

[Alteration (influenced by obsolete coco, coconut palm) of cacao.]

co′coa adj.

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cocoa

(ˈkəʊkəʊ) or

cacao

1. (Cookery) a powder made from cocoa beans after they have been roasted, ground, and freed from most of their fatty oil

2. (Cookery) a hot or cold drink made from cocoa and milk or water

3. (Colours)

a. a light to moderate brown colour

b. (as adjective): cocoa paint.

[C18: altered from cacao]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

co•coa

(ˈkoʊ koʊ)

n.

1. a powder made from roasted, husked, and ground cacao seeds from which much of the fat has been removed.

2. cacao (def. 2).

3. a beverage made by mixing cocoa powder with hot milk or water and sugar.

4. yellowish or reddish brown.

[1700–10; earlier cocao, cacoa, variant of cacao]

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Noun	1.	cocoa - a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot chocolate, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate cocoa - powder of ground roasted cacao beans with most of the fat removed beverage, drinkable, potable, drink - any liquid suitable for drinking; "may I take your beverage order?"
	2.	cocoa - powder of ground roasted cacao beans with most of the fat removed food product, foodstuff - a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food cacao bean, cocoa bean - seed of the cacao tree; ground roasted beans are source of chocolate chocolate, cocoa, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate - a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot criollo - cocoa of superior quality

Translations

كَاكَاوكاكاو: حبوب الكوكهمَشْروب الكوكَه

kakaokakaový bob

kakaochokolade

Kakao Kakaopulver Kakaobohne

κακάο

cacao chocolate

kakao

kaakaokaakaojauhe

cacao chocolat

kakao

kakaó

kakókakóduft

cacao

ココア

코코아

kakava

kakaokakao dzēriens

kakao

kakav

chokladkakao

ผงโกโก้

içeceği kakaokakao tozu

ca cao

可可可可粉可可饮料

cocoa

[ˈkəʊkəʊ]

A. N → cacao m; (= drink) → chocolate m
a cup of cocoa → una taza de chocolate

B. CPD cocoa bean N → grano m de cacao
cocoa butter N → mantequilla f de cacao
cocoa powder N → cacao m en polvo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cocoa

[ˈkəʊkəʊ] n → cacao m
a cup of cocoa → une tasse de cacao cocoa buttercocoa bean n → grain m de cacaococoa butter n → beurre m de cacao

cocoa

n → Kakao m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

cocoa

[ˈkəʊkəʊ] n → cacao; (drink) → cioccolata calda

cocoa

(ˈkoukou) noun

1. (a powder made from) the crushed seeds of the cacao tree, used in making chocolate.

2. a drink made from the powder. a cup of cocoa.

cocoa

→ كَاكَاو kakao kakao Kakao κακάο cacao kaakao cacao kakao cacao ココア 코코아 cacao kakao kakao cacau порошок какао kakao ผงโกโก้ kakao ca cao 可可

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If you had been good and had gone back to your office, I would have brought you down some cake and cocoa.'

He knew perfectly well that long ere the dawn of day his whole soul would be crying out for cake, squealing frantically for cocoa. Would it not be better to--no, a thousand times no!

She went to a small cupboard in the corner of the room, and from it produced in instalments all that goes to make cake and cocoa. She did not speak.

'If you go now it's just possible that I may--but I forgot, you don't like cocoa.'

She poured herself out another cup of cocoa. Conversation again languished.

Master Bean was discoursing easily on cocoa, the processes whereby it was manufactured, and the remarkable distances which natives of Mexico had covered with it as their only food.

Very likely, if the truth were known, there was somebody below who passed him up regular supplies of cake and cocoa.

The girl upstairs had broken his heart, ruined his life, and practically compared him to Roland Bean, and his pride should have built up an impassable wall between them, but--she had cake and cocoa. In similar circumstances King Arthur would have grovelled before Guinevere.

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There is not a month in which the cocoa does not produce a bunch of nuts, from twenty to fifty.

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He reduced his expenses by eating only one meal a day beside his breakfast; and he ate it, bread and butter and cocoa, at four so that it should last him till next morning.

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Butteridge's conception of an adequate equipment for a balloon ascent: a hamper which included a game pie, a Roman pie, a cold fowl, tomatoes, lettuce, ham sandwiches, shrimp sandwiches, a large cake, knives and forks and paper plates, self-heating tins of coffee and cocoa, bread, butter, and marmalade, several carefully packed bottles of champagne, bottles of Perrier water, and a big jar of water for washing, a portfolio, maps, and a compass, a rucksack containing a number of conveniences, including curling-tongs and hair-pins,, a cap with ear-flaps, and so forth.

He found among other items several tins of liquid cocoa containing explicit directions for opening that he followed with minute care.