Cocoa /(kō"kō̇)/

Co·coa

Cocoa

n.
  1. A tall palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera) as its fruit. It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree. It is widely planted throughout the tropics, and in some locations as an ornamental tree. (Bot.)

Cocoa

n.
  1. A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells.

Phrases & Compounds
Cocoa shells
the husks which separate from the cacao seeds in preparing them for use.