A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes; a source of cocaine.
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Examples for "coca"
Examples for "coca"
1We shouldn't just be eradicating coca - we should be eradicating poverty.
2This pouch contained a quantity of the dry leaves of the coca.
3That's the stage where we are now in the eradication of coca.
4Among the most useful are heroin, morphine, opium, coca, hemp, and peyote.
5They sprayed the coca, but they also killed all our food crops.
1Colombia is one of the world's biggest producers of cocaine, which is derived from the coca plant.
2I'm surprised no one has figured out how to genetically modify the coca plant so it can grow elsewhere.
3The problems created by cocaine use, they suggest, should be solved within those countries and not at the expense of the coca plant.
4The coca plant's ability to inspire humans to go to war, both against each other and against the plant, may be its most deadly quality.
5Nearby are half-dead fruit trees, withered maize plants and row upon row of skeletal coca plants.
1COCAINE is the main active chemical in the leaves of Erythroxylon coca, a shrub that grows in South America and southeast Asia.
2Cocaine is the main active chemical in the leaves of Erythroxylon coca, a shrub which grows in South America and southeast Asia.
Translations for Erythroxylon coca