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Theobroma_cacao
Theobroma cacao
Translingual
Proper noun
- A taxonomic species within the family Malvaceae – the cacao tree, native to tropical Central and South America, whose fruit is the source of chocolate.
Hypernyms
- (species): Malvaceae - family; Byttnerioideae - subfamily; Theobromeae - tribe; Theobroma - genus; Theobroma sect. Theobroma - section
Hyponyms
- (species):
See also
- List of sequenced plant genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia