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COFFEE TREE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coffee tree mean?
• COFFEE TREE (noun)
The noun COFFEE TREE has 1 sense:
1. any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans
Familiarity information: COFFEE TREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
coffee; coffee tree
Hypernyms ("coffee tree" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Meronyms (parts of "coffee tree"):
coffee; coffee bean; coffee berry (a seed of the coffee tree; ground to make coffee)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coffee tree"):
Arabian coffee; Coffea arabica (shrubby tree of northeastern tropical Africa widely cultivated in tropical or near tropical regions for its seed which form most of the commercial coffee)
Coffea liberica; Liberian coffee (small tree of West Africa)
Coffea canephora; Coffea robusta; Rio Nunez coffee; robusta coffee (native to West Africa but grown in Java and elsewhere; resistant to coffee rust)
Holonyms ("coffee tree" is a member of...):
Coffea; genus Coffea (coffee trees)
Context examples
A substance found in the leaves and beans of the coffee tree, in tea, yerba mate, guarana berries, and in small amounts in cocoa.
(Caffeine, NCI Dictionary)
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