coca

Meaning

Noun

• Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
• The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca (species)), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine.
• A pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan speaking areas.

Origin

• Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.
• Borrowed from Catalan coca. cake.