coca
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊkə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkoʊkə/
Noun
coca (usually uncountable, plural cocas)
- Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
- The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine.
Translations
any of four cultivated plants of the family Erythroxylaceae
the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)
Further reading
Erythroxylon coca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Erythroxylon coca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.ka/
Audio (Paris) (file)
Etymology 1
Contracted form of Coca-Cola
Further reading
- “coca” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Noun
coca f (plural cocas)
- coca (cultivated plant of the family Erythroxylaceae)
- coca (dried leaf of Erythroxylon coca)
- Coke (Coca-Cola)
- (uncountable, slang) snow (cocaine)
Romanian
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkoka/
Descendants
- English: coca
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of cocaína (“cocaine”).
Etymology 3
Abbreviation of Coca-Cola.
Further reading
- “coca” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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