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erythroxylum coca

A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes; a source of cocaine.

        erythroxylum coca
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        Examples for "coca"
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        We shouldn't just be eradicating coca - we should be eradicating poverty.
        The Guardian
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        This pouch contained a quantity of the dry leaves of the coca.
        The Forest Exiles: The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds ...
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        That's the stage where we are now in the eradication of coca.
        Reuters
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        Among the most useful are heroin, morphine, opium, coca, hemp, and peyote.
        The Status Civilization
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        They sprayed the coca, but they also killed all our food crops.
        The Guardian
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        COCAINE is the main active chemical in the leaves of Erythroxylon coca, a shrub that grows in South America and southeast Asia.
        The Irish Times
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        Cocaine is the main active chemical in the leaves of Erythroxylon coca, a shrub which grows in South America and southeast Asia.
        The Irish Times
        Uso de coca plant en inglés
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        Colombia is one of the world's biggest producers of cocaine, which is derived from the coca plant.
        Reuters
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        I'm surprised no one has figured out how to genetically modify the coca plant so it can grow elsewhere.
        Wired
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        The problems created by cocaine use, they suggest, should be solved within those countries and not at the expense of the coca plant.
        Wicked plants
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        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.
        Wicked plants
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        Nearby are half-dead fruit trees, withered maize plants and row upon row of skeletal coca plants.
        The Guardian
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        Cultivation of coca plants used to make cocaine rose 27 percent last year and Colombia remains the world's No.
        Reuters
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        The Peruvian government is running an eradication programme, cutting down coca plants, and blowing up illegal airstrips and cocaine production sites.
        BBC
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        Cardozo said a similar program took place in Peruvian territory to eradicate coca plants - used to make cocaine - in August 2011.
        Reuters
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        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.
        The world without us
        Translations for coca plant
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