COLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cola mean? 

• COLA (noun)
  The noun COLA has 2 senses:

1. large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts

2. carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts ('dope' is a southernism in the United States)

  Familiarity information: COLA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cola; genus Cola

Hypernyms ("Cola" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Cola"):

Cola acuminata; goora nut; kola; kola nut; kola nut tree (tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine; source of cola extract)

Holonyms ("Cola" is a member of...):

family Sterculiaceae; sterculia family; Sterculiaceae (a large family of plants of order Malvales)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts ('dope' is a southernism in the United States)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

cola; dope

Hypernyms ("cola" is a kind of...):

soft drink (nonalcoholic beverage (usually carbonated))

Meronyms (substance of "cola"):

cola nut; kola nut (bitter brown seed containing caffein; source of cola extract)

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cola"):

Coca Cola; Coke (Coca Cola is a trademarked cola)

Pepsi; Pepsi Cola (Pepsi Cola is a trademarked cola)

 Context examples 

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles cola.

(Cola Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)