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Cocoa vs Coca - What's the difference?

cocoa | coca |

As nouns the difference between cocoa and coca

is that cocoa is the dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made while coca is any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.

As an adjective cocoa

is of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.

As a proper noun Cocoa

is an object-oriented programming API for Mac OS X.

As an acronym COCA is

Corpus of Contemporary American English.

cocoa

English

Etymology 1

of (etyl) (m).

Noun

(wikipedia cocoa)
  • (label) the dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made
  • (label) an unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
  • (label) a hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar
  • (label) a cup or mug of this drink
  • (label) a light to medium brown colour
    • Quotations
    ``A Food Lover's Companion'' by Evan Jones (Harper & Row, 1979) includes this poem by Stanley J. Sharpless: : Half past nine - high time for supper; : ``Cocoa , love? ``Of course, my dear. : Helen thinks it quite delicious, : John prefers it now to beer.... : For they've stumbled on the secret : Of a love that never wanes, : Rapt beneath the tumbled bedclothes, : Cocoa coursing through their veins.
    Synonyms
    * (hot drink) chocolate, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate
    Derived terms
    {{der3, cocoa bean , cocoa butter , cocoa-payol , cocoa powder}}
    Related terms
    * cacao

    Adjective

    (-)
  • of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder

    • See also

    * English terms derived from Portuguese

    Etymology 2

    See (m).

    Noun

  • (label) Another spelling of .
    • ----

    coca

    English

    (wikipedia coca)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
  • The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine.

    • Derived terms

    * cocaine * cocain

    External links

    * (Erythroxylon coca) * (Erythroxylon coca) ----