- 1可可豆（做成巧克力、可可粉的原料；不是超市那罐可可粉）
Cacao is the seed — and the tree — that chocolate and cocoa come from. The seeds grow in large pods on a tree in hot countries. After they are dried and roasted, people grind them; that is the start of chocolate. English also has cocoa, historically the same word, worn down in the mouth (a ). Today many speakers keep them a little apart: cacao for the raw seed or the tree, cocoa for the powder you stir into milk. On food packets you will see both, and they are not always used strictly. A bar that says 70 percent cacao is talking about how much of that seed-stuff is in it, not about a cup of hot cocoa.
組成From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. Doublet of cocoa.
同家族的字
- cocoathe same word, worn down in speech; now often the powder, while cacao is the seed or the tree
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Cacaoname
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A barangay of Hilongos, Leyte, Philippines.
cacaonoun/kəˈkaʊ/
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A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
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The seed of this tree, the cocoa bean.
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rareCocoa (hot drink).
- Therefore they left Port à Paix just as the first streaks of gray were appearing in the east, depending on a good hot cup of cacao and a couple of bananas to nourish them sufficiently until they could enjoy the breakfast that Dave would prepare for them at the end of their morning’s share of the day’s trip. […] “Doctor, we always say ‘cocoa’ in the north, but you and all these people where it grows say ‘cacao,’ I notice. How is that?” asked Hal. / “There are four very distinct vegetable growths that have names so much alike that they are constantly mixed in the minds of those who are not botanists or do not know them in nature,” the Doctor began. “These are: Cacao berries, Coca leaves, Coco roots, and Cocoa nuts.[…]”
- Cacao was copiously used at their feasts, being colored with the red seeds of the achiote, or arnotto (Bixa orellana Linnæus), so that it resembled blood. At the festivals an intoxicating beer of corn was also copiously used and the rolled leaves of tobacco were smoked. […] And the Indians, both men and women, continued to drink the above-mentioned beverage, going and coming with it, and in the course of this drinking there were brought large cups of cacao prepared as they are accustomed to drink it.
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