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cota

cota noun: a perennial herb, Thelesperma megapotamicum (synonym Thelesperma gracile), native to the southwest and western plains of North America and used by the Hopi, Navajo and other American Indians for tea, as a dye, and for other herbal purposes.

Noun

cota (usually uncountable, plural cotas)

  1. (usually) A perennial herb, Thelesperma megapotamicum (synonym Thelesperma gracile), native to the southwest and western plains of North America and used by the Hopi, Navajo and other American Indians for tea, as a dye, and for other herbal purposes.

Proper noun capitalized: Cota

Cota (plural Cotas)

  1. A surname.

Forms of cota

Noun
pluralcotas
Proper noun
pluralCotas

Questions about cota

What does cota mean?
Cota means a perennial herb, Thelesperma megapotamicum (synonym Thelesperma gracile), native to the southwest and western plains of North America and used by the Hopi, Navajo and other American Indians for tea, as a dye, and for other herbal purposes.
What part of speech is cota?
Cota can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of cota?
The plural of cota is cotas.

Words near cota in the dictionary

  1. cot-caught merged
  2. cot-caught merger
  3. cot-caught mergers
  4. cot-quean
  5. cot-queans
  6. cota
  7. Cotabato
  8. Cotabato City
  9. cotadutide
  10. Cotai
  11. cotangent

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