coca plant
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- noun
- /ˈkoʊkə plænt/
- NSFW
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planta de coca
- Cocaine, another brain-affecting substance, comes from the coca plant (Erythroxylaceae family).
Examples
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United States anti-drug legislation has emphasized the eradication of the coca plant and has made its continued funding contingent upon certification, required annually, that progress is being made in this direction.
Academic text (1992) -
Coca leaves come from the coca plant and are chewed when fresh.
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Although there are many varieties of the coca plant, four are the most prevalent.
Academic text (1992) -
Apparently he had struck upon the idea of taking sugar water... and impregnating it with the leaf of the coca plant.
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Coca leaves come from the coca plant and are chewed when fresh.
Blog text (24) -
The coca plant was domesticated in pre-Columbian times and plays an important role in traditional Andean cultures.
Blog text (24) -
Just as beer and wine are naturally fermented products of grain and grapes, narcotics and stimulants appear in nature as attributes of the poppy or coca plant.
Academic text (1993) -
But there was a moment when Kelly Brownell got up to speak (the man is a renowned expert on obesity—seriously, look him up) and he was flipping through slides and he pulled up an image of the coca plant.
Blog text (19) -
The coca plant was domesticated in pre-Columbian times and plays an important role in traditional Andean cultures.
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His brother was eradicating the last of his coca plants when two men appeared in the field.
Synonyms
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A South American shrub with leaves that are a natural source of cocaine
A South American bush whose leaves are chewed in the Andes and make the drug cocaine
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is compositional: 'coca' names the specific Andean shrub and 'plant' denotes a botanical organism, so the phrase straightforwardly refers to that shrub species. This noun + noun structure and parallel forms in other languages (e.g. Spanish 'planta de coca') make the meaning directly derivable for learners who know both constituents.
Etymology
Coca plant comes from a South American shrub whose coca leaves people have chewed for a long time to get more energy and to feel less hungry in the high mountains. Because those leaves are the natural source of the drug 'cocaine', the name now points to both the plant itself and its link to the drug.