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Coma vs Coca - What's the difference?

coma | coca |

As nouns the difference between coma and coca

is that coma is a state of sleep from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma while coca is any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.

As an acronym COCA is

Corpus of Contemporary American English.

coma

English

(wikipedia coma)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A state of sleep from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
    • Related terms
    * comatose
    See also
    * persistent vegetative state * brain death

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (comae)
  • (astronomy) A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
  • (optics) A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that should be points.
  • (botany) A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    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) ----