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单词 cocoa pod
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cocoa pod
cocoa pod n. the fruit of the cacao tree, from which cocoa beans are extracted.Cocoa pods, borne directly on the trunk and larger branches of the tree, are typically a squat spindle shape with a furrowed, leathery rind which is yellow to reddish when the fruit is ripe, containing 20 to 50 seeds embedded in a mucilaginous pulp.
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1817 A. Rees Cycl. (1819) XXXVI. at Vanilla The method used to preserve the fruit is..to..lay it in small heaps to ferment two or three days, in the same manner as is practised for the cocoa pods.
1827 J. P. Hamilton Trav. Interior Provinces Columbia I. 95 The cocoa-pods on the trees resemble the small rough melon, and are of a dark red colour, and full of small beans, from which they make the chocolate.
1994 B. Gilroy Sunlight on Sweet Water 24 He broke open the cocoa pods with a sharp cutlass, and we scooped out the beans and spread them on the hessian bags to dry.
2007 Jrnl. Black Stud. 38 296 Farmers in the Gold Coast near the end of the 19th century moved from never having seen a cocoa pod to being the largest exporters of cocoa in the world.
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