1. Fermented, roasted, shelled, and ground cacao seeds, often combined with a sweetener or flavoring agent.
2. A beverage made by mixing water or milk with chocolate.
3. A small, chocolate-covered candy with a hard or soft center.
4. A grayish to deep reddish brown to deep grayish brown.

1. Made or flavored with chocolate: chocolate pudding.
2. Of a grayish to deep reddish brown to deep grayish brown.

[Spanish, from Nahuatl xocolatl : xococ, bitter + atl, water.]

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