coca — meaning in English

English meaning

• coca noun A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed or brewed as a mild stimulant and are the source of cocaine.
• cog noun A tooth on a gear wheel, or the wheel itself.
• coke noun A solid fuel made by roasting coal, used mainly in steelmaking.

Senses

coca is used for these senses in English:

• Coke (countable, uncountable, informal) Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.
• coca 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.
• cog (historical) The hypothetical precursor ship type of the above said to be in use during the early Middle Ages, variously alleged to be Frisian or Scandinavian.
• coke (informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.

cog — full definition

1. noun A tooth on a gear wheel, or the wheel itself.
2. noun An unimportant, replaceable part of a much bigger system, especially used of a person.

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