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单词 forastero
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forasteron.

/fɒraˈstɛːrəʊ/
Etymology: < Spanish forastero, strange.
Any of a group of varieties of the cacao tree, Theobroma cacao.
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cacao tree1640
cocoa1670
chocolate1688
chocolate tree1688
cocoa tree1698
Theobroma1760
cacao bush1839
forastero1858
criollo1955
1858 L. A. A. de Verteuil Trinidad vii. 262 The cacao forastero is hardier, more robust, and yields more abundantly.
1908 H. H. Smith Cacao Planting 39 Strong growing forastero or calabicillo, bearing the finest criollo beans.
1929 Encycl. Brit. V. 947/1 The finest type of bean the criollo, is grown in Venezuela, Ceylon, Java, Samoa, Madagascar and Nicaragua; but in Ceylon, and other places, criollo is being replaced by forastero.
1953 E. M. Chatt Cocoa ii. 16 Criollo means ‘native’ and Forastero ‘foreign’. The contradistinction arose in Venezuela after the introduction of cacao trees from the West Indies, when the terms were used to denote the local and imported kinds of cacao.
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