Word Finder - cocoa

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The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.

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An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.

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A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.

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Do you like cocoa?

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A serving of this drink.

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I like to watch TV with a cocoa.

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A light to medium brown colour.

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

She sat across from him, cocoa with marshmallows before both of them.

Cocoa is one of the products.

He sipped his cocoa from a sticky cup filled half with marshmallows.

The soil is in general very fertile, the principal products being rice, maize and pulse (kachang) in the lower grounds, and cinchona, coffee and tea, as well as cocoa, tobacco and fibrous plants in the hills.

Among the imported flora are tea, Siberian coffee, cocoa, Ceara rubber (which has not done well), Manila hemp, teak, cocoanut and a number of ornamental trees, fruit-trees, vegetables and garden plants.

He raised his eye- band to meet the gaze of the warrior, a man with dark eyes and hair and cocoa skin.

The cocoa nut, maize, sugar-cane, coffee, cotton, rice and tobacco (which last does not suffer like other crops from the locusts) do well.

The chief products are coffee, sesame, the sugar-cane, cocoa, vanilla and tobacco.

Coco-nuts, pine-apples and bananas, with some cocoa and coffee, are cultivated on small areas.

The two women went below to prepare the cocoa, leaving Howie and me in the darkened lab.

The fever had left him, and while he looked pale beneath his cocoa skin, he was alert and his speech coherent.

Caca.0 (cocoa) is cultivated extensively in the Amazon Valley and along the coast as far south as southern Bahia, and forms one of the leading exports.

Cocoa, rice and cotton were also increasingly cultivated and the fall in the value of rubber led to a much larger collection of copal, the amount exported, 2,139 tons in 1911, being 8,719 in 1916.

The other products of these warm valleys are excellent coffee, cocoa, sugar, tropical fruits of all kinds, and gold in abundance.

The vegetable products of Guatemala include coffee, cocoa, sugar-cane, bananas, oranges, vanilla, aloes, agave, ipecacuanha, castor-oil, sarsaparilla, cinchona, tobacco, indigo and the wax-plant (111yrica cerifera).

She sipped her cocoa, cheered by the thought of soon knowing what was wrong with her.

Among the principal imports are cocoa, coffee, grain (including Indian corn), fruit, provisions (including butter, eggs and potatoes from France and the Channel Islands), wines and spirits, sugar, wool, and other foreign and colonial produce.

A very few articles (spirits, beer, wine, tobacco, tea, coffee, cocoa) yield practically all of the customs revenue, and, so far as these articles are produced within the country, they are subject to an excise duty, an internal tax precisely equal to the import duty.

Bananas are grown over a large and increasing area; rice, maize, barley, potatoes and beans are cultivated to some extent in the interior; cocoa, vanilla, sugar-cane, cotton and indigo are products of the warm coast-lands, but are hardly raised in sufficient quantities to meet the local demand.

The exports, which comprise coffee, bananas, cocoa, cabinet-woods and dye-woods, with hides and skins, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell and gold, were officially valued at £1,398,000 in 1904; and in the same year the imports, including foodstuffs, dry goods and hardware, were valued at £1,229,000.

Sugar, bananas, tobacco and cocoa are also cultivated; but much of the sugar and bananas, most of the cocoa, and all the tobacco are consumed in the country.

During the colonial period, the cocoa of western Guatemala and Soconusco was reserved on account of its fine flavour for the Spanish court.

In the neighbourhood there are large cocoa plantations; and the city has a thriving trade in cocoa, coffee, hides, cotton, native tobacco and indigo.

The nut of the kola tree is in great demand, and since 1905 many cocoa plantations have been established, especially in the eastern districts.

Cocoa, copra, sugar and sweet potatoes are other important products of the district.

It is closely allied to theobromine, the alkaloid of cocoa, and also to uric acid.

Can you have cocoa?

Can I take him some cocoa?

She heard Toby's chipper voice as he invited the death dealer to share some cocoa with him.

Katie poured more whiskey into her cocoa.

She poured whiskey into her cocoa.

Exempt from duty were now only refuse, raw products, scientific instruments, ships and literary and artistic objects; forty-four articles notably beer, vinegar, sugar, herrings, cocoa, salt, fish oils, ether, alum and sodawere unaffected by the change, while duties were henceforth levied upon a large number of articles which had previously been admitted dtity free, such as pig iron, machines and locomotives, grain, building timber, tallow; horses, cattle and sheep; and, again, the tariff law further increased the duties leviable upon numerous other articles.

Cocoa cultivation was introduced by the Germans and proved remarkably successful.

Palm-oil, palm kernels, cocoa, copal, copra, Calabar beans, kola-nuts and ivory are the principal exports.

Rubber, ebony and other timber, cocoa and gum copal, come next in importance.

In 1890 the operatives in the jute and hemp industry numbered 39,885, and in 1901 they were (including workers in canvas, sacking, sailcloth, rope, twine, mats, cocoa fibre) 46,550.

One clause, the operation of which was limited to two years from the close of the existing war, provided that American vessels not exceeding 70 tons burden might trade with the West Indies, but should carry only American products there and take away to American ports only West Indian products; moreover, the United States was to export in American vessels no molasses, sugar, coffee, cocoa or cotton to any part of the world.

It also occurs in tea, cocoa, coffee, tobacco and in the ashes of beetroot.

The cocoa export is also small; tobacco, rice, beans and other crops are grown for local use.

The Dutch have established cocoa and coffee plantations at various points.

The principal exports of Cayenne are gold, cocoa, phosphates, hides, woods and spices.

Nor can it be said that under their white masters the natives have become great agriculturists, though plantations have been established both by the state and private companies, and coffee, cocoa, tobacco, rice and maize are grown for export.

Palm oil, palm nuts, white copal, coffee, cocoa, rice, earth-nuts and timber are next in importance among the exports.

Owing to its position on the lake, and its excellent communications by rail and steamer, Managua obtained after 1855 an important export trade in coffee, sugar, cocoa and cotton, although in 1876 it was temporarily ruined by a great inundation.

Sugar, tea, coffee and cocoa are also among the articles commonly selected.

Subsequently cocoa was cultivated extensively, and from about 1890 vanilla largely superseded the other crops; in 1899 the vanilla exported was valued at over £roo,000 out of a total export of £140,000, and from 1896 to 1903 the crop represented more than half the total value of the exports.

Minor exports are cocoa, coco-de-mer and beche-de-mer.

There was nevertheless an increase in cocoa plantations, chiefly in the Kabinda enclave; coffee, though gathered mainly from wild plants, was also cultivated in the Loanda hinterland and other areas.

The then governorgeneral of Angola, Senhor Norton de Mattos, had already instituted reforms and in 1913 had created a Department for Native Affairs, which set itself to regulate the employment of natives, including the recruitment of labourers for the cocoa plantations on St.

The soil is extraordinarily fertile, the chief products being cocoa and spices, especially nutmegs.