COCOA POWDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cocoa powder mean? 

• COCOA POWDER (noun)
  The noun COCOA POWDER has 1 sense:

1. the powdery remains of chocolate liquor after cocoa butter is removed; used in baking and in low fat and low calorie recipes and as a flavoring for ice cream

  Familiarity information: COCOA POWDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COCOA POWDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The powdery remains of chocolate liquor after cocoa butter is removed; used in baking and in low fat and low calorie recipes and as a flavoring for ice cream

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cocoa powder" is a kind of...):

chocolate (a food made from roasted ground cacao beans)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cocoa powder"):

Dutch-processed cocoa (cocoa powder treated with a mild alkalizing agent (such as baking soda))