kola
pronunciation
How to pronounce kola in British English:
UK ['kəʊlə]
How to pronounce kola in American English:
US ['koʊlə]
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- Noun:
- tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine; source of cola extract
Word Origin
- kola (n.)
- "the cola nut," 1830, variant of cola (q.v.).
Example
- 1. Its website boasts colorful pictures of coca , cardamom and kola nuts , along with other key " natural " ingredients .
- 2. A kola is resting on the trunk .
- 3. There 's no cocaine in coke , and technically there never was , though it uses coca leaves and kola nuts as flavorings and stimulants .
- 4. A region of extreme northern europe including northern norway , sweden , and finland and the kola peninsula of northwest u.s.s.r.it is largely within the arctic circle .
- 5. Then , putin , flanked by defense minister sergei ivanov , stood on board of the pyotr veliky cruiser to watch the sineva missile blast out of the water and vanish into the gray sky after being launched by the submerged nuclear submarine yekaterinburg near the kola peninsula .