Cacao seeds are the seeds of a tropical tree, from which cocoa and chocolate are made.
...a group of chemicals found in cacao.
...cacao beans.
cacao in British English
(kəˈkɑːəʊ, -ˈkeɪəʊ)
noun
1.
a small tropical American evergreen tree, Theobroma cacao, having yellowish flowers and reddish-brown seed pods from which cocoa and chocolate are prepared: family Sterculiaceae
2. cacao bean
3. cacao butter
Word origin
C16: from Spanish, from Nahuatl cacauatl cacao beans