cola
Meanings
Plural: colas
Noun
- large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts
- carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States)
- the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted
- the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos
- the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
- a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal
- a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)
- The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
- A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.
- plural of colon
- A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant.
Origin / Etymology
From a Niger-Congo language, compare Temne kola, Mandinka kola. The beverage "Coca-Cola" was what made the term widely known, and popularized the spelling with c instead of k.
Scrabble Score: 6
cola is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordcola is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cola is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
cola is a valid Words With Friends word