different between coconut vs cacao

English

Alternative forms

• cocoanut (dated)

Etymology

From coco +? nut.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ko?.k?.n?t/, [?k?o??.k?.n?t]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.k?.n?t/, [?k????.k?.n?t]
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

coconut (countable and uncountable, plural coconuts)

1. A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
2. A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
3. (uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.
4. The coconut palm.
5. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or dark-skinned person who acts “white” (Caucasian), alluding to the fact that a coconut is brown on the outside and white on the inside.
6. (South Africa, Australia, derogatory) A black person who thinks or acts "white" (European).
   • 8 June 2016, "Containment", Cleverman episode 2 (Waruu West speaking to half-brother Koen West)

     Your mum is a white whore, you coconut.

7. (New Zealand, derogatory) A Pacific islander.
8. (slang) A female breast.
9. (slang) The human head (often used in cricket broadcasts when a ball hits or nearly hits a batsman on the head).
   • 2007, Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness #2, page 19

     [Ashley J. Williams shoots a zombified version of the Winter Soldier in the head.]

     Dazzler: Oh my God...thank you! I-i-is he--

     Ashley J. Williams: A double-barrel boomstick blast straight through the coconut? Trust me, babe--he's not comin' back from that one.

Coordinate terms

• (acting white): banana, Oreo, Twinkie

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (kokonattsu)

Translations

Further reading

• coconut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. Doublet of cocoa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??k?????/, /k??ke?????/, [k??k??????], [k??k?e?????]
• (US) IPA^(key): /k??ka??/, /k??ke??o??/, [k??k?a??], [k??k?e??o??]
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

cacao (countable and uncountable, plural cacaos)

1. A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
2. This tree's seed, the cocoa bean.

Derived terms

• Cacao yellow mosaic virus

Related terms

• cocoa

Translations

Further reading

• cacao on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Alternative forms

• cacau (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??k?u?/
• Hyphenation: ca?cao
• Rhymes: -?u?

Noun

cacao m (uncountable)

1. cocoa [from late 16th c.]

Derived terms

• cacaoboom
• cacaoboon
• cacaoboter
• cacaomelk
• cacao-overeenkomst
• cacaopoeder

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: kakao

French

Etymology

From Spanish cacao

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ka.o/

Noun

cacao m (plural cacaos)

1. cocoa

Derived terms

• beurre de cacao
• cacaoté
• cacaotier
• cacaotière
• cacaoyer
• cacaoyère

Further reading

• “cacao” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

cacao m (invariable)

1. cocoa

Romanian

Etymology

From French cacao.

Noun

cacao f (uncountable)

1. cocoa

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl (“cacao bean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?kao/, [ka?ka.o]

Noun

cacao m (plural cacaos)

1. cacao tree

   Synonym: cacaotero

2. cacao bean
3. cocoa (bean, powder)
4. (colloquial) confusion

   Synonyms: desorden, confusión

Derived terms

• cacaotal
• cacaotero

Related terms

• cacahual
• cacahuate, cacahuete

Descendants

Further reading

• “cacao” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• cacao on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es