Cola

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cola \Co"la\, n.,
     L. pl. of {Colon}.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Cola \Co"la\, n. [NL., fr. a native name.] (Bot.)
     (a)
  
     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.
        (b) Same as {Cola nut}, below.
            [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cola
       See {colon}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Cola
       n 1: large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts [syn: {genus
            Cola}]
       2: carbonated drink flavored with extract from Kola nuts
          (`dope' is a southernism in the United States) [syn: {dope}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  colon
       n 1: the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the
            rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before
            they are excreted
       2: the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100
          centavos [syn: {El Salvadoran colon}]
       3: the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
          [syn: {Costa Rican colon}]
       4: a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal
          [syn: {Aspinwall}]
       5: a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a
          series or an example or an explanation (or after the
          salutation of a business letter)
       [also: {colones} (pl), {cola} (pl)]