cacao tree

Questions about cacao tree

What does cacao tree mean?

cacao tree means "tropical American tree producing cacao beans".

What is another word for cacao tree?

Close synonyms include cacao, chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cacao tree a common word?

cacao tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.