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chocolate tree

n.
See cacao.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.chocolate tree - tropical American tree producing cacao beanschocolate tree - tropical American tree producing cacao beans
cacao, cacao tree, Theobroma cacao
cacao bean, cocoa bean - seed of the cacao tree; ground roasted beans are source of chocolate
genus Theobroma, Theobroma - cacao plants
angiospermous tree, flowering tree - any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary
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"The Mesoamerican population who lived near the indigenous cultivation sites of the 'Chocolate tree' (Theobromo cacao) had a multitude of documented applications of chocolate as medicine, ranging from alleviating fatigue to preventing heart ailments to treating snakebite.
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The True History of Chocolate appears in its third updated edition to provide a fine survey of chocolate and its history, which began some 4,000 years ago in the jungles of Mexico and Central America with the chocolate tree and the evolution of a process to change its bitter seeds into chocolate.
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The groom's cake was a chocolate tree stump with butterflies and a heart and arrow around the couple's initials.
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Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- A team of scientists who succeeded in sequencing the DNA of a variety of Theobroma cacao, considered to produce the world's finest chocolate, said that the production of high quality chocolate, and the farmers who grow it, will benefit from their sequencing achievement and assembly of the chocolate tree genome.
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In 1939, Nestle introduced chocolate chips The chocolate tree's scientific name is Theobroma Cacao.
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