The difference between Coca and Coke

When used as nouns, coca means any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family erythroxylaceae, native to western south america, whereas coke means solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven.


Coke is also verb with the meaning: to produce coke from coal.

check bellow for the other definitions of Coca and Coke

  1. Coca as a noun:

    Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.

  2. Coca as a noun:

    The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine.

  1. Coke as a noun (uncountable):

    Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.

  1. Coke as a verb (transitive):

    To produce coke from coal.

  2. Coke as a verb (intransitive):

    To turn into coke.

  1. Coke as a noun (informal, slang, uncountable):

    Cocaine.

  1. Coke as a noun (uncountable, informal):

    .

  2. Coke as a noun (countable, informal):

    .

  3. Coke as a noun (US, chiefly, Southern US, informal):

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