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Found 5 hits - Term: cocoa, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
   1913 webster

   cocoa shells, the husks which separate from the cacao seeds
      in preparing them for use.
      1913 webster coconut
see also:
cocoa shells 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cocoa \co"coa\ k=o"k-o, n., cocoa palm \co"coa palm`\
   k=o"k-o paumm`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 tall palm tree producing the cocoanut cocos nucifera as
   its fruit. 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. it is
   widely planted throughout the tropics, and in some locations
   as an ornamental tree.
   1913 webster
see also:
cocos nucifera 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
cocoa
     n 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
see also:
chocolate hot chocolate drinking chocolate 
[4] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
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 codes: 32922, 32926

[5] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
cocoa, fl -- u.s. city in florida
   population 2000:    16412
   housing units 2000: 8064
   land area 2000:     7.458820 sq. miles 19.318255 sq. km
   water area 2000:    2.064925 sq. miles 5.348130 sq. km
   total area 2000:    9.523745 sq. miles 24.666385 sq. km
   fips code:            13150
   located within:       florida fl, fips 12
   location:             28.369334 n, 80.743779 w
   zip codes 1990:     32922 32926
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    cocoa, fl
    cocoa



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