Tropical New World tree (Theobroma cacao) of the chocolate family (Sterculiaceae, or Byttneriaceae).
Its seeds, after fermentation and roasting, yield cocoa and chocolate. Cocoa butter is extracted from the seed. The tree is grown throughout the wet lowland tropics, often in the shade of taller trees. Its thick trunk supports a canopy of large, leathery, oblong leaves. The small, foul-smelling, pinkish flowers are borne directly on the branches and trunk; they are followed by the fruit, or pods, each yielding 20–40 seeds, or cocoa beans. 
chocolate - Food prepared from ground roasted cacao beans.
Saint George's - Town (pop., 1991 est.: 5,000), capital of Grenada, in the West Indies.
Fort-de-France - City (pop., 1999: 94,049), capital of Martinique, West Indies.
Kongo - Bantu-speaking peoples living along the Atlantic coast in Congo (Kinshasa), Congo (Brazzaville), and Angola.
Fang - Bantu-speaking peoples of southern Cameroon, mainland Equatorial Guinea, and northern Gabon.
cacao - tropical tree, whose scientific name means "food of the gods" in Latin. Originating in the lowland rainforests of the Amazon and Orinoco river basins, cacao is grown commercially in the New World tropics as well as western Africa and tropical Asia for its seeds called cocoa beans, which are processed into cocoa powder, cocoa butter, and chocolate. This article treats the cultivation of the cacao ...
cocoa - highly concentrated powder made from chocolate liquor-a paste prepared from cocoa beans, the fruit of the cacao (q.v.)-and used in beverages and as a flavouring ingredient.
cacao - Owing to the hazards of disease and pests, only 20 percent of the world's crop is grown on large plantations. Most of the world's cocoa is grown on small farms of less than two hectares (five acres). Cacao can also be grown in pristine rainforests at low densities, providing an economic use for protected land.
cocoa - highly concentrated powder made from chocolate liquor-a paste prepared from cocoa beans, the fruit of the cacao-and used in beverages and as a flavouring ingredient.
Savanna-la-Mar - town and port, southwestern Jamaica, on an open bay at the mouth of the Cabarita River, west-northwest of Kingston. Chief exports are sugar, for which it has bulk-loading facilities, coffee, ginger, cacao, and logwood. The town has been frequently damaged by hurricanes, particularly in 1780, when it was swept to instant destruction, and again in 1988. Pop. (1991) urban area, 16,553.
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