Cocoa : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Cocoa	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Cocoa
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cocoa n a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot Synonym(s): cocoa, chocolate, hot chocolate, drinking chocolate powder of ground roasted cacao beans with most of the fat removed
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cocoa \Co"coa\, n. [Corrupted fr. cacao.] A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells. {Cocoa shells}, the husks which separate from the cacao seeds in preparing them for use.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cocoa \Co"coa\ (k[omac]"k[osl]), n., Cocoa palm \Co"coa palm`\ (p[aum]m`)[Sp. & Pg. coco cocoanut, in Sp. also, cocoa palm. The Portuguese name is said to have been given from the monkeylike face at the base of the nut, fr. Pg. coco a bugbear, an ugly mask to frighten children. Cf., however, Gr. koy^ki the cocoa palm and its fruit, ko`i:x, ko`i:kos, a kind of Egyptian palm.] (Bot.) A palm tree producing the cocoanut ({Cocos nucifera}). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Cocoa, FL (city, FIPS 13150) Location: 28.37700 N, 80.75017 W Population (1990): 17722 (8248 housing units) Area: 19.4 sq km (land), 5.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 32922, 32926