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Coco vs Cocoa - What's the difference?

coco | cocoa |

As nouns the difference between coco and cocoa

is that coco is coconut palm while cocoa is the dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.

As an adjective cocoa is

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

As a proper noun Cocoa is

an object-oriented programming API for Mac OS X.

coco

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Coconut palm.
  • * {{quote-book, 1992, Frances Temple, Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti, page=52 citation
    • , passage=I turn round and round to see the high mountains, the thick coco trees.}}
  • Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.
  • * {{quote-book, 1813, John Adams, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, , editor=John Pinkerton, chapter=A Voyage to South America, page=355 citation
    • , passage=The coco is a very common fruit, and but little esteemed;
  • * {{quote-book, 2007, Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince, Frommer's Caribbean 2008, page=468 citation
    • , passage=You might opt for a heaping tower composed of fried oysters, coco -flavored shrimp, fried octopus, and calamari. }}

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    cocoa

    English

    Etymology 1

    of (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (wikipedia cocoa)
  • (label) the dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made
  • (label) an unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
  • (label) a hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar
  • (label) a cup or mug of this drink
  • (label) a light to medium brown colour
    • Quotations
    ``A Food Lover's Companion'' by Evan Jones (Harper & Row, 1979) includes this poem by Stanley J. Sharpless: : Half past nine - high time for supper; : ``Cocoa , love? ``Of course, my dear. : Helen thinks it quite delicious, : John prefers it now to beer.... : For they've stumbled on the secret : Of a love that never wanes, : Rapt beneath the tumbled bedclothes, : Cocoa coursing through their veins.
    Synonyms
    * (hot drink) chocolate, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate
    Derived terms
    {{der3, cocoa bean , cocoa butter , cocoa-payol , cocoa powder}}
    Related terms
    * cacao

    Adjective

    (-)
  • of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder

    • See also

    * English terms derived from Portuguese

    Etymology 2

    See (m).

    Noun

  • (label) Another spelling of .
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