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cola (root: colon)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cola has 2 senses
- cola(n = noun.plant) genus cola - large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts; Array is a kind of dilleniid dicot genus
- cola(n = noun.food) dope - carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States); Array is a kind of soft drink
is a member of family sterculiaceae, sterculia family, sterculiaceae
has particulars: coca cola, coke, pepsi, pepsi cola
CIDE DICTIONARY
cola, n.
L. pl. of Colon. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
cola, n. [NL., fr. a native name.].
- A genus of sterculiaceous trees, natives of tropical Africa, esp. Guinea, but now naturalized in tropical America, esp. in the West Indies and Brazil. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- a dark-colored carbonated soft drink flavored with extract of the cola nut, and often colored with caramel; also, any soft drink similar in color and flavor to a cola-flavored drink. The name was predominantly derived from the popular soft drink
Coca-Cola . [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cola, n. (also kola)
1 any small tree of the genus Cola, native to W. Africa, bearing seeds containing caffeine.
2 a carbonated drink usu. flavoured with these seeds.
1 any small tree of the genus Cola, native to W. Africa, bearing seeds containing caffeine.
2 a carbonated drink usu. flavoured with these seeds.
Idiom
cola nut a seed of the tree.
Etymology
W.Afr.
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