ca|ca|o

ca|ca|o «kuh KAY oh, -KAH-», noun, plural -ca|os.

1. the seeds from which cocoa and chocolate are made. They are fermented, then washed to remove the sticky coating, and dried.

2. the tropical American tree that they grow on; chocolate tree. Cacao is a small evergreen tree that belongs to the sterculia family.

╂[< Spanish cacao < Nahuatl cacauatl]