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cola

noun
/ˈkəʊ.lə/UK/ˈkoʊlə/US

Etymology

From a Niger-Congo language, compare Temne kola, Mandinka kola. The beverage "Coca-Cola" was what made the term widely known, and popularized the spelling with c instead of k.

  1. derived from cauda
  2. derived from coda

Definitions

  1. The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.

  2. A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.

  3. plural of colon

    • In this part, the author presents a prosodic hierarchy describing syllables, moras, feet, cola and a typology for words and stress.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant.

    2. Columbia, South Carolina

      • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Cola.

    3. Acronym of cost of living adjustment.

    4. comp.os.linux.advocacy (a Usenet newsgroup promoting the Linux operating system)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cola. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA