cocalero
cocalero noun: a grower of coca leaves in Peru or Bolivia.
Noun
cocalero (plural cocaleros)
- A grower of coca leaves in Peru or Bolivia.
- With a cocalero in power, cocalero activists no longer shut down the main highway from Santa Cruz, enabling the province’s exports to reach important markets.2007 September 18, Simon Romero, “A Radical Gives Bolivia Some Stability”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2021
- The cocaleros carried the leaves from the valleys where they are grown to high Andean villages of the sort we'd just passed, and the trail had been used for this purpose since the days of the conquistadors.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company
Forms of cocalero
| plural | cocaleros |
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Origin of cocalero
Borrowed from Spanish cocalero.
Questions about cocalero
- What does cocalero mean?
- Cocalero means a grower of coca leaves in Peru or Bolivia.
- What part of speech is cocalero?
- Cocalero is a noun.
- What is the plural of cocalero?
- The plural of cocalero is cocaleros.
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