theobroma cacao

Questions about theobroma cacao

What does theobroma cacao mean?

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

What is another word for theobroma cacao?

Close synonyms include cacao, cacao tree, chocolate tree. 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 theobroma cacao a common word?

theobroma cacao 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.