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noun

Coffee n.

1.

The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America.

2.

The coffee tree. Note: There are several species of the coffee tree, as, Coffea Arabica, Coffea canephora, Coffea occidentalis, and Coffea Liberica. The white, fragrant flowers grow in clusters at the root of the leaves, and the fruit is a red or purple cherrylike drupe, with sweet pulp, usually containing two pyrenes, commercially called "beans" or "berries".

3.

The beverage made by decoction of the roasted and ground berry of the coffee tree. "They have in Turkey a drink called coffee.... This drink comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion."

4.

A cup of coffee (3), especially one served in a restaurant; as, we each had two donuts and a coffee; three coffees to go.

5.

A social gathering at which coffee is served, with optional other foods or refreshments.

6.

A color ranging from medium brown to dark brown. Note: The use of coffee is said to have been introduced into England about 1650, when coffeehouses were opened in Oxford and London.

Coffee bug (Zool.), a species of scale insect (Lecanium coffaea), often very injurious to the coffee tree.

Coffee rat (Zool.) See Musang.

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"Coffee" Quotes from Famous Books

... Nannie did not make their appearance, and as Glen sat at the head of the table and poured the coffee, she explained that they already had ...

— Glen of the High North • H. A. Cody

... "Why, I could do with a six-course dinner," was my sarcastic rejoinder, feeling confident that he had merely asked the question to tantalise me. But seeing that he really meant what he said I rattled off a complete menu, not forgetting the cup of black coffee and an Egyptian cigarette. Feeling that the officer was in reality the prison doctor I grew reckless ...

— Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons - Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben • Henry Charles Mahoney

... enthusiasm had not cooled, though his room grew chill. He had gone to bed when the typing was done, and had dreamed scene after scene vividly while he slept. Still glowing with the pride of creation, he had read the script while his breakfast coffee had cooled, and he had been the first man in the office, so eager was he to share his secret and see Martinson's eyes gleam with impatience to have ...

— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower

... band plays on the lawn, and people stroll about, and criticise one another's dresses, and look at the flowers. They are very greedy affairs, too, for really and truly we were eating all the time—tea and iced coffee when we arrived; ices, and fruits, and nice things to drink until the moment we came away. I don't mean to say that I ate straight on, of course, but waiters kept walking about with trays, and I noticed particularly what they were like, so as not to take two ices running from the same man. ...

— The Heart of Una Sackville • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... the earth where his parents rolled in gold. He was usually called 'Mr.' by the Chief, and was said to feed in the parlour on steaks and gravy; likewise to drink currant wine. And he openly stated that if rolls and coffee were ever denied him at breakfast, he would write home to that unknown part of the globe from which he had come, and cause himself to be recalled to the regions of gold. He was put into no form or class, but learnt alone, as little as he liked - and he liked very little - and there was a belief ...

— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens

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