cocoa

Meanings

Noun

• The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
• An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
• A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.
• A serving of this drink.
• A light to medium brown colour.
• Alternate spelling of coco.

Adjective

• Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.

Related

Similar words

• chocolate, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate

Origin

• From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. The form cocoa by confusion with coco, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language. cacao.
• By confusion with cocoa, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.