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Coca

noun

A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes; a source of cocaine. Synonyms: coca plant, Erythroxylon coca.

United States comedienne who starred in early television shows with Sid Caesar (1908-2001). Synonym: Imogene Coca.

Dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their stimulating effect.

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"Coca" Quotes from Famous Books

... a base of supplies. So they purchased a large quantity of tinned goods; beef, condensed milk, and soup. Sugar, coffee, chocolate, flour, and salt made up the burden of the remainder. They also took a supply of coca leaves, which is a native stimulant enabling one to withstand the ...

— The Web of the Golden Spider • Frederick Orin Bartlett

... business? If you're using the tickler to inject drugs into workers to keep them going, that's really just my cocaine suggestion modernized and I'm putting in for another thou. Hundreds of years ago the South American Indians chewed coca leaves ...

— The Creature from Cleveland Depths • Fritz Reuter Leiber

... D'Anville (Geographie Ancienne, tom. i. p. 25) has fixed the situation of Caucha, or Coca, in the old province of Gallicia, where Zosimus and Idatius have placed the birth, ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

... bring about hallucinations with all the garb of reality. Physicians are well aware that the more frequently these diseased conditions of the mind are sought, the more readily they are found. Then, again, they were often induced by intoxicating and narcotic herbs. Tobacco, the maguey, coca; in California the chucuaco; among the Mexicans the snake plant, ollinhiqui or coaxihuitl; and among the southern tribes of our own country the cassine yupon and iris versicolor,[273-2] were used; and, it is even said, were cultivated for ...

— The Myths of the New World - A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America • Daniel G. Brinton

Words linked to "Coca" : comedienne, bush, Erythroxylon, cocain, plant, genus Erythroxylum, flora, genus Erythroxylon, plant life, shrub, Erythroxylum, plant product