Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
cola-nut .
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Examples
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He added pepsin, a digestive enzyme, along with sugar and seltzer, to a kola-nut brew and sold it as a stomach tonic, Pepsin Cola.
THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007
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The Alkaloids most used are those of tea, coffee, kola-nut, cocoa, coca, tobacco and opium.
The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan
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Sierra Leone is an organized colony, a product of which is the kola-nut.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895
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Here a caravan appears from Gonga bringing the desired kola-nut, chewed by all who have ten _kurdie_ to spare; or another caravan laden with natron; or
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The chief article of African produce sold in the Kano market is the kola-nut, which has become to the natives as necessary as coffee or tea to Europeans.
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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