Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of certain Andean evergreen shrubs or small trees of the genus Erythroxylum, especially E. coca, whose leaves contain cocaine and other alkaloids.
- noun The dried leaves of such a plant, chewed by people of the Andes for a stimulating effect and also used for extraction of cocaine and other alkaloids.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dried leaf of Erythroxylon Coca, natural order Linaceæ, a small shrub of the mountains of Peru and Bolivia, but cultivated in other parts of South America.
- noun The plant itself.
- noun A Japanese rice-measure, equal to about 5 Winchester bushels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The dried leaf of a South American shrub (
Erythroxylon Coca ). In med., calledErythroxylon . - noun an American herb (
Richardsonia scabra ), yielding a nutritious fodder. Its roots are used as a substitute for ipecacuanha.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca), widely cultivated legally in Andean countries, and the source of
cocaine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun United States comedienne who starred in early television shows with Sid Caesar (1908-2001)
- noun a South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes; a source of cocaine
- noun dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their stimulating effect
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The coca (_Erythroxylon coca_, Lam.) is a shrub about six feet in height, with bright green leaves and white blossoms.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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Too bad it was $100 in coca cola stock or something.
Breakfast Links: Dell Tricks, Time Capsule & Fingerjig : #comments 2007
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The third was known as Bolivian, but it referred to coca found along the eastern slope of the Andes in both that country and Peru.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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The third was known as Bolivian, but it referred to coca found along the eastern slope of the Andes in both that country and Peru.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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The fragile states along Africa's west coast have become major trafficking hubs for cocaine on its way from Latin American coca fields to the European market.
Newsvine - Get Smarter Here Abdoulie John 2010
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Those wings remind of for fried chicken wings in coca-cola, which are also sweet. those arn’t coca-cola fried chicken wings are they?
Downtown Lunch: Bon Bon Chicken | Midtown Lunch: Downtown NYC 2008
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The United States says that Bolivia - the world's third-largest producer of coca, after Colombia and Peru - produces too much excess coca, which is often processed into cocaine and sold in South America and Europe.
Bolivia walks thin line as it struggles to battle coca production Helen Coster 2010
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The United States says that Bolivia - the world's third-largest producer of coca, after Colombia and Peru - produces too much excess coca, which is often processed into cocaine and sold in South America and Europe.
Bolivia walks thin line as it struggles to battle coca production Helen Coster 2010
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Following a brief sacrifice to the Dragon Fertility Goddess (don't tell Dave!), we will enjoy a traditional breakfast of potatoes and mate de coca, which is basically boiled cocaine and which I'm told puts Starbucks to shame.
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Morales won widespread support from the lower class with his campaign against the eradication of Bolivia's once-prolific production of coca, which is used to make cocaine.
Bolivia 2006
chained_bear commented on the word coca
Var. cuca.
October 16, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word coca
A bank has provided a trade finance loan to the Ghana Coca Board, it says here. I wish I could leave that uncorrected.
September 24, 2010