Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
cocoa .
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Examples
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While upon their sunlit summits stirr'd the tufted cocoa-tree —
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I may here note that a cocoa-tree is easily climbed with a bit of rope or a handkerchief.
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The bread-tree grows in the Philippine islands, and principally in those of Guam and Tinian, as the cocoa-tree grows in the Indies.
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These frail vessels are composed of thin cocoa-tree logs, lashed together, and big enough to carry one, or, at most, two persons.
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The beverage known as cocoa comes from the seeds of the cocoa-tree, which are roasted like the coffee berries to develop the aroma.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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A handle is carved out of a whale's tooth, and insets of baleen, silver, cocoa-tree, or ebony, give variety and finish.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886
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For the cocoa-tree and the island man are both lovers and neighbours of the surf.
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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I followed my uncle closely, and we had no difficulty in shooting three of the great pigeons, which Ebo pounced upon and carried off in triumph, and in a few minutes they were roasting upon sticks, while our black cook busied himself in climbing a cocoa-tree, from which he detached half a dozen nuts, each of which came down with a tremendous thud.
Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas George Manville Fenn 1870
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The cocoa-tree, the stem of which is slenderer than elsewhere, and the banana-tree here shoot up with wonderful rapidity and vigour.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866
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The cocoa-tree was cultivated by the aboriginal inhabitants of South America, particularly in Mexico, where, according to Humboldt, it was reared by Montezuma.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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