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COCOA BUTTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The vegetable fat from the cacao that is extracted from chocolate liquor; the basis for white chocolate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("cocoa butter" is a kind of...):
chocolate (a food made from roasted ground cacao beans)
Holonyms ("cocoa butter" is a substance of...):
white chocolate (a blend of cocoa butter and milk solids and sugar and vanilla; used in candy bars and baking and coatings; not technically chocolate because it contains no chocolate liquor)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A yellow-white fat from cocoa beans
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cocoa butter" is a kind of...):
fat (a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides))
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