Title | Cocaine |
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Text | Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary English Etymology cocaine 1874, from Fr. cocaine (1856), coined by Albert Niemann of Gottingen University from coca (from Quechua cuca) + -ine, arbitrary use of L. -inus, -ina for noun ending. A medical coinage, the drug was used 1870s as a local anaesthetic for eye surgery, etc. Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English cocaine ADJ. crack, freebase QUANT. line, packet VERB + COCAINE freebase, inject, shoot, smoke, sniff, snort COCAINE + NOUN possession | injection | export | baron | cartel DRUG (for more verbs and nouns)
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 cocaine co·caine / kEu5kein; NAmE kou- / (also informal coke) noun[U] a powerful drug that some people take illegally for pleasure and can become addicted to. Doctors sometimes use it as an anaesthetic .可卡因;古柯硷 Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged Search result show the entry is found in: cocaine family , or cocaine plant co·caine \kōˈkān, kəˈ-, ˈkōˌk- sometimes ˈkōkəˌēn or -k(ə)in\ noun (-s) Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary coca + -ine; originally formed as German kokain 1. : a bitter crystalline alkaloid C17H21NO4 obtained from coca leaves and synthesized from ecgonine that has first a stimulating then a narcotic effect if taken internally, in large doses produces intoxication like that from hemp, and acts as a local anesthetic and mydriatic; methyl-benzoyl-ecgonine 2. : any of several alkaloids found in coca that are derived from ecgonine |
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