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cacao

/kuh-kah-oh, -key-oh/US // kəˈkɑ oʊ, -ˈkeɪ oʊ //UK // (kəˈkɑːəʊ, -ˈkeɪəʊ) //

可可,可可西里,可可豆,可口可乐

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ca·ca·os.

    • : a small tropical American evergreen tree, Theobroma cacao, cultivated for its seeds, the source of cocoa, chocolate, etc.
    • : Also cocoa. the fruit or seeds of this tree.

Examples

  • In 2010, we scaled up our cacao product output in a major way.

  • It’s very important to produce efficiently, because cacao products are commodities and the cost of production is the most important thing.

  • In the mountainous Talamanca region in the south, communities of Bribri and Boruca people live off the land, safeguarding many ancestral ingredients, while also growing cacao for wider consumption.

  • As a chocolate maker in the 21st century, we carry the responsibility to correct some of the historical injustices which have taken place in the cacao industry.

  • We would dream about someday being on a cacao farm and picking the beans to make chocolate, a dream our grandparents were never able to fully realize for themselves.

  • These villages used to harvest rubber, cacao, palm oil, and coffee beans.

  • Add vodka, creme de cacao, buttermilk, three drops of red food coloring, and vanilla extract to a cocktail shaker with ice.

  • Mocha is the offspring of the marriage of two plain-looking beans: coffee and cacao.

  • Even so, some experts predict a global shortage of cacao beans as demand keeps growing.

  • I only wish somebody would pay me 10 a day for taking care of cacao, and I could leave literature to others.

  • They employ themselves in raising cattle, making sugar and honey, and extracting oil from the cacao fruit.

  • Corn-cobs they ground, mixed cacao with the powder, and baked the mixture on the fire.

  • Cacao forms an important article of food, both as a drink and as bread.

  • I bought what little cacao they had; the rest of their plunder they brought ashore and divided among our people.