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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A considerable genus of shrubs, natural order Rubiaceæ, natives of tropical Asia and Africa. Some species yield coffee. See cut under coffee.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the genus comprising the coffee trees.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Rubiaceae — the coffee plants.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun coffee trees

Etymologies

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From New Latin, from Arabic قهوة (qahwah).

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