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Cocoa is a brown powder from cacao beans, used to make chocolate drinks and cakes. Usually uncountable: some cocoa, a tin of cocoa, cocoa powder. Hot chocolate is the drink in a cup; cocoa is often the powder you start with. Coffee is also a hot brown drink but is not chocolate. Mix-up: coconut (a fruit) — extra nut.

Meaning

A brown powder from cacao beans, used to make chocolate drinks.

Examples

• “Add hot milk to the cocoa.”
• “Mix the cocoa with a little sugar first.”
• “This cocoa is quite bitter without milk.”

Good to know

uncountable: cocoa (powder). Contrast: hot chocolate (the drink), coffee (not chocolate). Mix-up: coconut.

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