What does COCA mean?
Definitions for COCA
ˈkoʊ kəco·ca
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Princeton's WordNet
Erythroxylon coca, coca, coca plantnoun
a South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes; a source of cocaine
Coca, Imogene Cocanoun
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cocanoun
dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their stimulating effect
Wiktionary
cocanoun
The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca), widely cultivated legally in Andean countries, and the source of cocaine.
Etymology: coca, from kuka.
Wikipedia
Coca
Coca is any of the four cultivated plants in the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America. Coca is known worldwide for its psychoactive alkaloid, cocaine. The plant is grown as a cash crop in the Argentine Northwest, Bolivia, Alto Rio Negro Territory in Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru, even in areas where its cultivation is unlawful. There are some reports that the plant is being cultivated in the south of Mexico, by using seeds imported from South America, as an alternative to smuggling its recreational product cocaine. It also plays a role in many traditional Amazonian and Andean cultures as well as the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia.The cocaine alkaloid content of dry Erythroxylum coca var. coca leaves was measured ranging from 0.23% to 0.96%. Coca-Cola used coca leaf extract in its products from 1885 until about 1903, when it began using decocainized leaf extract. Extraction of cocaine from coca requires several solvents and a chemical process known as an acid-base extraction, which can fairly easily extract the alkaloids from the plant.
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coca
Coca refers to a plant native to South and Central America, known scientifically as Erythroxylum coca. It grows abundantly in the Andes mountains. The leaves of the coca plant are traditionally chewed by people in these regions for their stimulant properties, which help to reduce hunger, fatigue, and altitude sickness. Coca is also known as the source plant from which cocaine is extracted. The word can also refer to products like tea or candies made from coca leaves.
Webster Dictionary
Cocanoun
the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca). In med., called Erythroxylon
Etymology: [Sp., fr. native name.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Coca
kō′ka, n. a shrub of six or eight feet high, of which the leaves furnish an important narcotic and stimulant.—ns. Cocaine (kō′kä-in), a local anæsthetic made from coca-leaves, and much used in dentistry and surgical operations; Cocainisā′tion.—v.t. Cō′cainise.—n. Cō′cainism, a morbid condition induced by over-use of cocaine. [Sp.,—Peruv.]
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Coca
Any of several South American shrubs of the Erythroxylon genus (and family) that yield COCAINE; the leaves are chewed with alum for CNS stimulation.
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
COCA
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Coca is ranked #13955 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Coca surname appeared 2,162 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Coca.
78.5% or 1,698 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
17.9% or 388 total occurrences were White.
1.6% or 36 total occurrences were Asian.
0.8% or 18 total occurrences were Black.
0.6% or 13 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.4% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of COCA in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of COCA in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of COCA in a Sentence
Coca-Cola is so delicious, but it's like sun tanning or cigarettes — they're these wonderful things that we now know are horrible for us.
The challenge for Coca-Cola in the modern times is always, how do James Quincey recruit new users ? duane Stanford's urgently critical.
Coca-Cola Zero Sugar's new recipe has rolled out in more than 50 countries and has had accelerated growth in the last three months.
For far too long companies like Nike and Apple and Amazon and Coca-Cola were using forced labor. They were benefiting from forced labor or sourcing from suppliers that were suspected of using forced labor, these companies, sadly, were making all of us complicit in these crimes.
There are popular customs that people use. Some drink coca tea and others chew coca leaves. Let's see what he decides to do. You can do it too (chew coca leaves), if you want to.
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