a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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cacao (kəˈkɑːəʊ, -ˈkeɪəʊ)

—n
1.	a small tropical American evergreen tree, Theobroma cacao, having yellowish flowers and reddish-brown seed pods from which cocoa and chocolate are prepared: family Sterculiaceae
2.	cacao bean another name for cocoa bean
3.	cacao butter another name for cocoa butter

[C16: from Spanish, from Nahuatl cacauatl cacao beans]

cocoa or cacao (ˈkəʊkəʊ)

—n
1.	a powder made from cocoa beans after they have been roasted, ground, and freed from most of their fatty oil
2.	a hot or cold drink made from cocoa and milk or water
3.	a. a light to moderate brown colour
	b. (as adjective): cocoa paint

[C18: altered from cacao]

cacao or cacao

—n

[C18: altered from cacao]

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cacao

seed from which cocoa and chocolate are made, 1550s, from Sp. cacao, from Nahuatl (Aztec) cacaua, root form of cacahuatl "bean of the cocoa-tree."

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