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Erythroxylon coca   Listen
Erythroxylon coca

noun
1.
A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes; a source of cocaine.  Synonyms: coca, coca plant.






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"Erythroxylon coca" Quotes from Famous Books



... London, by Mr. Dowdeswell. This paper, published in The Lancet of April 29 and May 6, 1876, pp. 631 and 664, is entitled "The Coca Leaf: Observations on the Properties and Action of the Leaf of the Coca Plant (Erythroxylon coca), made in the Physiological Laboratory of University College, by G.F. Dowdeswell, B.A." The results of these investigations were absolutely negative, and at the close of the work the investigator ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 • Various



Words linked to "Erythroxylon coca" :   genus Erythroxylum, Erythroxylum, Erythroxylon, bush, coca, genus Erythroxylon, coca plant, shrub



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