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cuca

cuca is the alternative form of coca.

Meaning of coca

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

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Proper noun capitalized: Cuca

Cuca

  1. An evil old hag in Brazilian folklore, said to attack children who don't go to bed early.

Phrases with cuca

Questions about cuca

What does cuca mean?
Cuca means an evil old hag in Brazilian folklore, said to attack children who don't go to bed early.
What is cuca the alternative form of?
Cuca is the alternative form of coca.
What part of speech is cuca?
Cuca is a proper noun.

Words near cuca in the dictionary

  1. cubulin
  2. cubyl
  3. cubyls
  4. Cubzac-les-Ponts
  5. cuc
  6. cuca
  7. cuca shop
  8. cuca shops
  9. cucalorus
  10. cucaloruses
  11. cucamelon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cuca (page history and authors); Cuca (page history and authors); coca (page history and authors). 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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