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Pos: Noun
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun cola has 2 senses

1.  cola(n = noun.plant) genus cola - large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts;
is a kind of dilleniid dicot genus
is a member of family sterculiaceae, sterculia family, sterculiaceae

2.  cola(n = noun.food) dope - carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States);
is a kind of soft drink
has particulars: coca cola, coke, pepsi, pepsi cola


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

cola, n.

   L. pl. of Colon. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]


cola, n. [NL., fr. a native name.].

1.  A genus of sterculiaceous trees, natives of tropical Africa, esp. Guinea, but now naturalized in tropical America, esp. in the West Indies and Brazil. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2.  a dark-colored carbonated soft drink flavored with extract of the cola nut, and often colored with caramel; also, any soft drink similar in color and flavor to a cola-flavored drink. The name was predominantly derived from the popular soft drink Coca-Cola. [PJC]


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

cola, n. (also kola)
1 any small tree of the genus Cola, native to W. Africa, bearing seeds containing caffeine.
2 a carbonated drink usu. flavoured with these seeds.

Idiom:
cola nut a seed of the tree.

Etymology:
W.Afr.


[RELATED WORDS]

coca cola, cola acuminata, cola extract, cola nut, cola seed, genus cola, pepsi cola