say it: KOH-luh
cola is a noun meaning "large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts". It carries 2 recorded senses.
large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts
carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States)
United States
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cola come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.