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 

• COFFEE TREE (noun)

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)