theobroma
Noun
Meaning
A genus of small trees. See Cacao.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Hypernyms
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Examples
Chocolates and candies Valentine's Day chocolates main Chocolate is a typically sweet, usually brown, food preparation of Theobroma cacao seeds, roasted, ground, and often flavored.
Cacao is one of 22 species of Theobroma.
The Nahuatl-derived Spanish word cacao entered scientific nomenclature in 1753 after the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus published his taxonomic binomial system and coined the genus and species Theobroma cacao.