[prob. f. COCOA2, from the resemblance of the swollen limbs to the fleshy underground shoots of the Colocasia.] A disease like elephantiasis prevalent in the West Indies.
a. 1818. M. G. Lewis, Jrnl. W. Ind. (1834), 144. Afflicted with the cocoa-bay, one of the most horrible of negro diseases.
