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Noun: cocoa butter  'kow-kow'bú-tu(r)
  1. The vegetable fat from the cacao that is extracted from chocolate liquor; the basis for white chocolate
    "The cosmetics company used cocoa butter in their moisturizing lip balm"
     
  2. A yellow-white fat from cocoa beans
    "Cocoa butter is often used in cosmetics and chocolate making"

Derived forms: cocoa butters

Type of: chocolate, fat

Part of: white chocolate

Encyclopedia: Cocoa butter