coca

Meaning

1. Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
2. 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.

Synonyms

coke

cocaine

coca plant

Erythroxylon coca

white horse

white lady

Bolivian marching powder

street drug

yola

nose candy

mahogany

snow

❄️

toot

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkəʊkə/

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.