Coca Definition

kōkə
noun
Any of a genus (Erythroxylon, esp. E. coca) of tropical, mostly American shrubs of the coca family, whose dried leaves are the source of cocaine and other alkaloids.
Webster's New World
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.
American Heritage
These dried leaves.
Webster's New World
Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • coca plant
  • Erythroxylon coca
  • Imogene Coca
adjective
Designating a family (Erythroxylaceae, order Linales) of dicotyledonous shrubs and trees.
Webster's New World
abbreviation
(linguistics) Corpus of Contemporary American English.
Wiktionary

Origin of Coca

  • Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

    From Wiktionary

  • Spanish from Quechua kúka

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Coca Sentence Examples

  • Coca, any preparation or admixture of, containing more than 0.1% but less than 1 of coca alkaloids.

  • The leaves and young shoots are chewed; they have stimulating properties, comparable with those of the coca of Peru.

  • With the cinchona trees grow many kinds of melastomaceae, especially the Lasiandra, with masses of purple flowers, tree-ferns and palms. In the warm valleys there are large plantations of coca (Erythroxylon Coca), the annual produce of which is stated at 15,000,000 lb.

  • Coca (Erythroxylon coca) is a product peculiar to the eastern Andean slopes of Bolivia and Peru, where it has long been cultivated for its leaves.

  • These are sun-dried, packed in bales, and distributed throughout the sierra region, where coca is used by the natives as a stimulant.

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