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coca

Syllables: co·ca/ˈkəʊ.kə/US/ˈkoʊ.kə/

coca noun: any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.

coca: any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western...
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Noun (1)

coca (usually uncountable, plural cocas)

  1. (usually) Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
  2. (usually) 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 and used as aphrodisiac in the past.

Noun (2)

coca (plural cocas)

  1. A pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan-speaking areas.
    • A coca, a type of flat bread normally topped with roasted vegetables, was capped by strands of briny whitebait.2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in New York Times

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Coca

Coca (countable and uncountable, plural Cocas)

  1. A surname.
  2. A river (the Coca River) in Ecuador, a tributary of the Napo.
  3. Synonym of Puerto Francisco de Orellana (El Coca), Ecuador.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: COCA

COCA

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Corpus of Contemporary American English.

coca meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

coca in Hindi

any of four cultivated plants of the family Erythroxylaceae
कोका kokā
the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)
कोका kokā

coca in Marathi

any of four cultivated plants of the family Erythroxylaceae
कोका kokā
the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)
कोका kokā

coca in Urdu

کوکا

coca in Bengali

কোকা
More languagesFewer languages
coca in Telugu
కోకా, కొకా
coca in Malayalam
കൊക്ക, കോക്ക
coca in Kannada
ಕೋಕಾ, ಕೊಕಾ
coca in Punjabi
ਕੋਕਾ
coca in Odia
କୋକା
coca in Nepali
कोका

Synonyms of coca

Forms of coca

Noun
pluralcocas
Proper noun
pluralCocas

Origin of coca

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

Borrowed from Catalan coca. Doublet of cake.

Words formed from coca

Phrases with coca

Words that rhyme with coca

Questions about coca

What does coca mean?
Coca means any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
What is coca in Hindi?
Coca in Hindi is कोका (kokā). See Coca meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is coca?
Coca can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce coca?
Coca is pronounced /ˈkəʊ.kə/ (UK).
What is the plural of coca?
The plural of coca is cocas.

Words near coca in the dictionary

  1. Coby
  2. cobyric
  3. cobza
  4. cobzas
  5. COC
  6. coca
  7. Coca Cola
  8. Coca Colas
  9. coca paste
  10. coca wine
  11. Coca-Cola

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: coca (page history and authors); Coca (page history and authors); COCA (page history and authors); coca (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coca (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coca (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coca (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coca (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coca (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coca (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); coca (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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