Noun: cacao tree
- Tropical American tree producing cacao beans
"The cacao trees required careful shade management to thrive"; "The Theobroma cacao trees required careful shade management to thrive";
- cacao, chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao
Derived forms: cacao trees
Type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree
Part of: genus Theobroma, Theobroma
Encyclopedia: Cacao tree