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1. Carbonated drink flavoured with extract from kola nuts ('dope' is a southernism in the United States)
   - dope [US]

1. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts
   - genus Cola

1. The basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
   - Costa Rican colón
    
2. The basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos
   - El Salvadoran colón

1. The part of the large intestine between the caecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted
    
2. A punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)

1. A port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal
   - Aspinwall

Derived forms: colas, Colas

See also: colonic, colorectal

Type of: city, Costa Rican monetary unit, dilleniid dicot genus, El Salvadoran monetary unit, large intestine, metropolis, port, punctuation, punctuation mark, soft drink, urban center [US], urban centre [Brit, Cdn]

Part of: family Sterculiaceae, Panama, Republic of Panama, sterculia family, Sterculiaceae

Encyclopedia: Cola