cola

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A sweet, dark, fizzy soft drink flavoured with kola nut and caramel.

   He poured himself a tall glass of cola.

2. 2
   noun

   The tropical tree whose nuts are used to flavour cola drinks, or the nut itself.

   Cola trees grow across much of West Africa.

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish cola (“tail”), from Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda, or from its diminutive caudula. Doublet of queue and coda.

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