What does "coca" mean?

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

Coca

Common synonyms include: coca plant, erythroxylon coca, erythroxylon coca, imogene coca, puerto francisco de orellana, shrub.

//ˈkəʊ.kə// name, noun

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Noun

1
Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America. uncountable, usually
2
A pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan-speaking areas.
"A coca, a type of flat bread normally topped with roasted vegetables, was capped by strands of briny whitebait."
3
dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their stimulating effect wordnet
4
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
5
a South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes; a source of cocaine wordnet

Proper Noun

1
Acronym of Corpus of Contemporary American English. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
2
A surname. countable, uncountable
3
A river (the Coca River) in Ecuador, a tributary of the Napo. countable, uncountable
4
Synonym of Puerto Francisco de Orellana (El Coca), Ecuador. countable, uncountable