Meanings of coca plant in English

Colombia is one of the world's biggest producers of cocaine, which is derived from the coca plant.

I'm surprised no one has figured out how to genetically modify the coca plant so it can grow elsewhere.

The problems created by cocaine use, they suggest, should be solved within those countries and not at the expense of the coca plant.

The 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.

Nearby are half-dead fruit trees, withered maize plants and row upon row of skeletal coca plants.

Cultivation of coca plants used to make cocaine rose 27 percent last year and Colombia remains the world's No.

The Peruvian government is running an eradication programme, cutting down coca plants, and blowing up illegal airstrips and cocaine production sites.

Cardozo said a similar program took place in Peruvian territory to eradicate coca plants - used to make cocaine - in August 2011.

Coca plants-nativeto the highlands of Peru and Bolivia, but needing chemical help anywhere else-won'tlast two seasons in Colombia without men to tend them.