noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cocoa bean
cocoa butter
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hot
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Would you like some hot cocoa to warm you up?
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It was bright white against her hot cocoa skin.
■ NOUN
bean
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Now you can visit Cadbury World and see the history of chocolate and its manufacture from cocoa bean to the finished product.
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Years abroad had made them grateful for yams, bananas, cocoa beans and rice.
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Their cocoa beans are weighed, graded and packed by the 182 Village Societies to which the farmers belong.
butter
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Purists and protectionists had insisted that only products made from cocoa butter were worthy of the name.
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While the work of Prof Harwood is valuable, cocoa butter is not responsible for the popularity of chocolate.
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Because of these shortages, much research has been undertaken to produce a fat with cocoa butter properties.
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It is the percentage content of cocoa butter that dictates the quality of the chocolates that you buy.
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I gave her a jar of home-made skin cream containing almond oil, cocoa butter and rosewater to soften her skin.
farmer
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The initiative was taken by Bafuor Osei Akoto, a prosperous, go-ahead cocoa farmer of Kumasi.
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Many of its workers and functions were of marginal utility and at the cost of a better price to cocoa farmers .
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His commitment to both his country and the fate of its cocoa farmers is clear.
powder
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This pudding also includes a little cocoa powder for good measure.
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Put the cocoa powder coffee and water into a small pan.
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Put the syrup, cocoa powder and brandy in a pan.
tree
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Cocoa production had largely shifted from the coastal area, where disease had destroyed many cocoa trees , into Ashanti.
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We returned from Loreto with pods from two wild cocoa trees and budwood from another 15.
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Fortunately for us, they had developed the custom of leaving a few of the wild cocoa trees when they felled the forest.
■ VERB
make
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For he makes me smooth cocoa with bubbles on the top.
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Ted was making cocoa for two, using real sugar.
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Purists and protectionists had insisted that only products made from cocoa butter were worthy of the name.
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There was little reason to be there today, but anywhere was better than Howard Bay, making cocoa tea for Johnnie.
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Then Aunt Bedelia made some cocoa and managed to draw us into conversation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cocoa production had largely shifted from the coastal area, where disease had destroyed many cocoa trees, into Ashanti.
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After the ball Dot tucked her up in bed and promised her a cup of cocoa with brandy in it.
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As cocoa contains caffeine, it would have stimulated the Temperance workers on their way.
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Father Tim looked into his cocoa .
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I made Joanna respectable by putting up my anchor lantern, made myself a mug of cocoa , and turned in.
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It takes 400 dried cocoa beans to make one pound of chocolate, reads another.
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Ted was making cocoa for two, using real sugar.
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Whisk together 1 cup sugar, cocoa and 1 / 2 cup buttermilk.