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noun
Cola  n.  (Bot.)
1.
(a)
A genus of sterculiaceous trees, natives of tropical Africa, esp. Guinea, but now naturalized in tropical America, esp. in the West Indies and Brazil.
(b)
Same as Cola nut, below.
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.






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"Cola" Quotes from Famous Books



... sub-debs did not indulge in anything more relaxing than coca cola. And even first and second year debbies did their drinking from glasses issued by the hostess, not in triplicate. If a young man of the period imported a flask from the outside, that young man was promptly dropped from polite society, no matter how stringent was the shortage ...
— Nonsenseorship • G. G. Putnam

... man of Orvieto, of the name of Cola, hit upon a device to recover a hundred florins he had been cheated of, which showed he was possessed of all the eyes of Argus, though he had unluckily lost his own. And this he did without wasting a farthing either ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton

... last I am almost home. Eleven miles walk from the sweat shop here, and that's some hoofing it, believe me. (Sways.) Oh, I am faint (Looks over shoulder at beer case.), faint for the want of my Coca-Cola. (Enter ALGERNON R. I—wears slouch hat, heavy moustache, red shirt and high boots. She is facing L.) Oh, I have a hunch I'm being shadowed—flagged by a track-walker! But I mustn't think of that. (Starts to drag case L.) I must get home to ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page

... ca yeramaa que te vas todo torcendo como jogador de bola. Huxtix, huxte xulo ca, 370 que teu dou yraas gemendo e resoprando sob a cola. Aa corpo de mi tareja descobrisuos vos na cama. Parece? dix pera vossa ama, nam criaraas ...
— Four Plays of Gil Vicente • Gil Vicente

... claramente que he tomado el animal que estaba atado cerca de la puerta. Ademas, este animal tiene la cola larga, y una cabra tiene la ...
— A First Spanish Reader • Erwin W. Roessler and Alfred Remy

... of August, Project Blue Book was back to normal. Lieutenant Flues's Coca-Cola consumption had dropped from twenty bottles a day in mid-July to his normal five. We were all getting a good night's sleep and it was now a rare occasion when my home telephone would ring in the middle of the night to report ...
— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt

... Martin Prog'ne su'bis. 29. Barn Swallow Cheli'don erythrogas'ter. 30. Tree Swallow Tachycine'ta bi'color. 31. Bank Swallow Clivi'cola ripa'ria. ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues

... venganza. 10 En el arzon de la silla Ancho escudo reverbera Con blasones de Castilla, Y el mote dice a la orilla: Nunca mi espada venciera. 15 Era el caballo galan, El bruto mas generoso, De mas gallardo ademan: Cabos negros, y brioso, Muy tostado, y alazan, 20 Larga cola recogida En las piernas descarnadas, Cabeza pequena, erguida, Las narices dilatadas, Vista feroz y encendida. 25 Nunca en el ancho rodeo Que da Betis con tal fruto Pudo fingir el deseo Mas bella estampa ...
— Modern Spanish Lyrics • Various



Words linked to "Cola" :   kola, Cola acuminata, the States, Pepsi, coke, soft drink, dilleniid dicot genus, dope, Coca Cola, genus Cola, family Sterculiaceae, Sterculiaceae, goora nut, United States, USA, U.S.A., cola nut, Pepsi Cola, United States of America, U.S., kola nut tree, sterculia family, US, cola extract, kola nut



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