Cocoa - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Cocoa :  (noun)
1: a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot [syn: chocolate, hot chocolate, drinking chocolate]
2: powder of ground roasted cocao beans with most of the fat removed

Based on WordNet 2.0

Cocoa : \Co"coa\ (k[=o]"k[-o]), n., Cocoa palm \Co"coa palm`\ (p[aum]m`)[Sp. & Pg. coco cocoanut, in Sp. also, cocoa palm. The Portuguese name is said to have been given from the monkeylike face at the base of the nut, fr. Pg. coco a bugbear, an ugly mask to frighten children. Cf., however, Gr. koy^ki the cocoa palm and its fruit, ko`i:x, ko`i:kos, a kind of Egyptian palm.] (Bot.) A palm tree producing the cocoanut ({Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Cocoa : \Co"coa\, n. [Corrupted fr. cacao.] A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells.

Cocoa shells, the husks which separate from the cacao seeds in preparing them for use.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Cocoa, FL (city, FIPS 13150) Location: 28.37700 N, 80.75017 W Population (1990): 17722 (8248 housing units) Area: 19.4 sq km (land), 5.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 32922, 32926

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Example Usage of Cocoa

jyyender: 맥에서 코코아로 새로 프로그램을 짜면 통일된 툴바와 네이티브 버튼과 스크롤, 멀티 터치 제스쳐를 사용할수있습니다. RT: @ludensk: "For Mac, a complete rewrite in Cocoa brings an Unified..
ThePedroChannel: Okay this is pissing me off... my room smells like freshly baked sugar cookies & Cocoa Puffs, and no one is baking any cookies! WTF?!
readergirl: @abba_ks go for it! sugar cookies and hot Cocoa for the rest of the week
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