cola
Pluralcolas
- 1A sweet, fizzy drink that is dark brown and flavored with kola nut and caramel.
She ordered a cola with her burger and fries.
The diner pours cola straight from a fountain machine.
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- 2A tropical tree whose nuts are used to flavor drinks, or one of its nuts.
Like a coffee bean that grows on a tree and helps people stay awake.
Villagers chew cola to stay awake on long journeys.
The cola grows well in hot, wet climates.
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- 3The thick group of flower buds that grows along the stem of a cannabis plant.
Like a tight bunch of grapes growing along a branch.
The biggest cola sat right at the top of the plant.
Growers carefully dried each cola after cutting it down.
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Less common meaning
- 4Plural of colon. A dated plural, used mainly for colon as a part of a sentence or verse, not the punctuation mark.
He broke the long line into two short cola.
In this part, the author presents a prosodic hierarchy describing syllables, moras, feet, cola and a typology for words and stress.
2008, Alexandre Allauzen, Review of “Mathematical Linguistics” by Andras KornaiHere, cola is the plural of colon, a unit in the rhythm of speech.Note
Practice
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Origins
From a Niger-Congo language, like Temne "kola" and Mandinka "kola." The drink "Coca-Cola" made the word popular and spread the spelling with a "c."
An unchanged borrowing from Spanish "cola" meaning "tail," which came from Latin "cauda."