cocoa
n. uncountablen. a brown powder made from crushed beans that is used to make chocolate and hot drinks. You can also use it to flavor cakes and cookies.
n. a powder made from roasted, husked, and ground seeds of the cacao tree, from which much of the fat has been removed. Often refers to the beverage prepared by mixing this powder with milk or water.
I like to drink hot cocoa on cold winter nights.
The recipe calls for two tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa to give the cake a rich flavor.
Global commodity markets often fluctuate based on the harvest yields of cocoa in West Africa, which produces the majority of the world's supply.
From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. The form cocoa came about by confusion with coco, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language. Doublet of cacao.
By confusion with cocoa, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.
Uncountable when referring to the powder or the substance; countable when referring to a single serving or cup of the drink.