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cocoas

[koh-koh] Origin

co·coa

1[koh-koh]
noun
1.
a powder made from roasted, husked, and ground seeds of the cacao, Theobroma cacao, from which much of the fat has been removed.
2.
cacao (def. 2).
3.
a beverage made by mixing cocoa powder with hot milk or water.
4.
brown; yellowish brown; reddish brown.
adjective
5.
of or pertaining to cocoa.
6.
of the color of cocoa.

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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

Origin:
1700–10; earlier cocao, cacoa, variant of cacao
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co·coa

2[koh-koh]
noun

Origin:
1545–55; misspelling of coco, by confusion with cocoa1

Co·coa

[koh-koh]
noun
a city in E central Florida. 16,096.
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Word Origin & History

cocoa
1707, from Sp. cacao, from Nahuatl cacua, root form of cacahuatl "bean of the cocoa tree."
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