Cacao - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: cacaocacao
A small evergreen tree Theobroma Cacao of South America and the West Indies Its fruit contains an edible pulp inclosing seeds about the size of an almond from which cocoa chocolate and broma are prepared...
cacaine
The essential principle of cacao now called theobromine...
Chocolate
A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients usually sugar and cinnamon or vanilla...
Maya
the Indian people occupying the area of Veracruz Chiapas Tabasco Campeche and Yucatan together with a part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador The Maya peoples are dark short and brachycephalic and at the time of the discovery had attained a higher grade of culture than any other American people They cultivated a variety of crops were expert in the manufacture and dyeing of cotton fabrics used cacao as a medium of exchange and were workers of gold silver and copper Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and palaces and they possessed a superior calendar and a developed system of hieroglyphic writing with records said to go back to about 700 a d...
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