GENUS COFFEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Coffea mean? 

• GENUS COFFEA (noun)
  The noun GENUS COFFEA has 1 sense:

1. coffee trees

  Familiarity information: GENUS COFFEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS COFFEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coffee trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Coffea; genus Coffea

Hypernyms ("genus Coffea" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Coffea"):

coffee; coffee tree (any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans)

Holonyms ("genus Coffea" is a member of...):

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)