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Cocoa, city, United StatesCocoa, city (1990 pop. 17,722), Brevard co., E Fla., on the Indian River (a lagoon), a segment of the Intracoastal Waterway; inc. 1895. It is a tourist and arts center in a region where citrus fruits are grown. An 8-mi (12.9 km) causeway leads from the city over Indian River to Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, and Cape Canaveral. Patrick Air Force Base is nearby.cocoa, in cookingcocoa: see cacao cacao (kəkä`ō, –kā`–), tropical tree (Theobroma cacao..... Click the link for more information. . CocoaApple's programming interface (API) for the Mac OS X operating system. Formerly known as the Yellow Box and derived from the OpenStep environment from NeXT, Cocoa applications are created with Apple's Xcode and Interface Builder development environments as well as with languages such as Perl and Python. See Xcode and OpenStep. cocoa, cacao a. a light to moderate brown colour b. (as adjective): cocoa paint How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| There is not a month in which the cocoa does not produce a bunch of nuts, from twenty to fifty. He found among other items several tins of liquid cocoa containing explicit directions for opening that he followed with minute care. And he told tales of blockade -long weeks of swaying at anchor, varied only by the departure and return of steamers that had used up their coal (there was no change for the sailing-ships); of gales and cold - cold that kept two hundred men, night and day, pounding and chopping at the ice on cable, blocks, and rigging, when the galley was as red-hot as the fort's shot, and men drank cocoa by the bucket. |
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