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Coca

noun

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

United States comedienne who starred in early television shows with Sid Caesar (1908-2001). Synonym: Imogene Coca.

Dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their stimulating effect.

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"Coca" Quotes from Famous Books

... phosphates, ginger ale, coca cola, birch beer, root beer, and various other drinks called mashes, sours, and freezes. While these are pleasing to the taste and have the advantage of being ready to drink when prepared, it is advisable not to indulge in them too frequently, because excessive use of them is liable ...

— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5 • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

... the famous chincona tree from which we get quinine. Also the coca plant from which we get cocaine. Perhaps when the dentist pulled your tooth he used cocaine that came from this country. The natives chew the coca leaf as a stimulant. It is actually said that by the use of this ...

— Birdseye Views of Far Lands • James T. Nichols

... miniature bay, of about three acres in extent, closed in by perpendicular rocks, and attainable only by boat, or by the passage through which we had just arrived. In this secluded spot a quantity of coca-nut palms were growing, waifs, carried there by the ocean from the distant South Sea Islands, fructifying and multiplying on the hospitable shore, and shielded from the tomahawk of the native, on account of the shelter ...

— Australian Search Party • Charles Henry Eden

... a universal instinct in man to select the strong and bitter principles for that purpose. The aborigines of Central America used rolled tobacco leaves ages before Columbus was born; and the coca leaf, chewed by the lowest orders of the Peruvians, was for ages, and is now, their main source of strength and comfort. So opium, hemp and the betel-nut have been used by eastern Asiatics from the remotest antiquity; ...

— The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island • Roger Thompson Finlay

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