cocoa butter

1. 1.

   a yellow-white fat from cocoa beans

   Broaderfat
2. 2.

   the vegetable fat from the cacao that is extracted from chocolate liquor; the basis for white chocolate

   Broaderchocolate

Questions about cocoa butter

What does cocoa butter mean?

cocoa butter means "a yellow-white fat from cocoa beans". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is cocoa butter a common word?

cocoa butter is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.