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Cocoa vs Vanilla - What's the difference?

cocoa | vanilla |

As proper nouns the difference between cocoa and vanilla

is that cocoa is (computing) an object-oriented programming api for mac os x while vanilla is .

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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    vanilla

    English

    (wikipedia vanilla)

    Noun

  • (label) Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially ), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
  • (label) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
  • (label) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
  • (label) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
  • (label) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.

    • Derived terms

    * Cuban vanilla * vanilla grass

    Synonyms

    * (bean) vanilla bean * (extract) vanilla extract * (artificial extract) imitation vanilla

    Adjective

    (more)
  • Of .
  • Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
  • (label) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
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  • Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

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