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||Ca*ca*jão" (?), n. [Pg.]
(Zoöl) A South American short-tailed monkey
(Pithecia melanocephala or Brachyurus
melanocephala). [Written also cacajo.]

Ca*ca"o (?), n. [Sp., fr. Mex.
kakahuatl. Cf. Cocoa, Chocolate]
(Bot.) A small evergreen tree (Theobroma
Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit
contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an
almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are
prepared.

Cach"a*lot (?), n. [F.
cachalot.] (Zoöl.) The sperm whale
(Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a
large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death,
concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called
spermaceti. See Sperm whale.

||Cache (?), n. [F., a hiding
place, fr. cacher to conceal, to hide.] A hole in the
ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions
which it is inconvenient to carry. Kane.

{ Ca*chec"tic (?), Ca*chec"tic*al (?), }
a.


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