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coca|ˈkəʊkə|
[a. Sp. coca, a. Peruvian cuca. G. de la Vega (transl. by Ricaut) says ‘The Indians call [it] cuca, and the Spaniards coca’ (Comment. of Peru viii. xv.).]
The name in Bolivia of Erythroxylon Coca, a shrub six or eight feet high; hence, applied to its dried leaves, which have been employed from time immemorial, with powdered lime, as a masticatory, appeaser of hunger, and stimulant of the nervous system.
1616Bullokar, Coca, an hearbe of India, the leaues whereof being bruised and mixt with the powder of Cockles or Oysters in their shelles burnt the Indians use in little balles to carry in their mouthes to preserue them from famine and great dryth. 1625Purchas Pilgrims ii. 1694 An herb..Coca which they carrie continually in their mouthes. 1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 205 The Coca, or Cuca is a small Shrub, much about the Bigness of the Vine. 1866Treas. Bot. 469 The use of Coca in Peru..is said to have originated with the Incas.
b. attrib. and Comb., as coca-chewer, coca plant, coca wine, etc.
1855J. F. W. Johnston Chem. Com. Life II. 158 The coca leaf resembles that of hemp, in the narcotic quality of dilating the pupil. 1889Pall Mall G. 8 Jan. 7/3 The coca plant..Coca wine and various other preparations of coca leaves are now also largely in use. |