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Meanings of coca plant in inglês
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"
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We shouldn't just be eradicating coca - we should be eradicating poverty.
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This pouch contained a quantity of the dry leaves of the coca.
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That's the stage where we are now in the eradication of coca.
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Among the most useful are heroin, morphine, opium, coca, hemp, and peyote.
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They sprayed the coca, but they also killed all our food crops.
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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.
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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.
Usage of coca plant in inglês
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Colombia is one of the world's biggest producers of cocaine, which is derived from the coca plant.
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I'm surprised no one has figured out how to genetically modify the coca plant so it can grow elsewhere.
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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.
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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.
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Nearby are half-dead fruit trees, withered maize plants and row upon row of skeletal coca plants.
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Cultivation of coca plants used to make cocaine rose 27 percent last year and Colombia remains the world's No.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Translations for coca plant
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