Coca

Definitions

1. Acronym of Corpus of Contemporary American English.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
2. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
3. Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
   uncountable, usually
4. A pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan-speaking areas.
5. A river (the Coca River) in Ecuador, a tributary of the Napo.
   countable, uncountable
6. 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.
   uncountable, usually
7. Synonym of Puerto Francisco de Orellana (El Coca), Ecuador.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“A coca, a type⟳ of flat bread normally topped with roasted vegetables, was capped by strands of briny whitebait.”

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