Definition of coffee

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Coffee (n.) 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..

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Settle :: Settle (n.) To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee..
Speculate :: Speculate (v. i.) To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock..
Strong :: Strong (superl.) Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee..
Teakettle :: Teakettle (n.) A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc..
Ground :: Ground (n.) Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids; dregs; lees; feces; as, coffee grounds..
Mocha :: Mocha (n.) A variety of coffee brought from Mocha.
Coffeeman :: Coffeeman (n.) One who keeps a coffeehouse.
Agrypnotic :: Agrypnotic (n.) Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee..
Triple :: Triple (a.) To make threefold, or thrice as much or as many; to treble; as, to triple the tax on coffee..
Gymnocladus :: Gymnocladus (n.) A genus of leguminous plants; the Kentucky coffee tree. The leaves are cathartic, and the seeds a substitute for coffee..
Drink :: Drink (n.) Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions..
Coffeepot :: Coffeepot (n.) A covered pot in which coffee is prepared, or is brought upon the table for drinking..
Teaspoon :: Teaspoon (n.) A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes..
Musang :: Musang (n.) A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also coffee rat..
Plantation :: Plantation (n.) The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation..
Rubiaceous :: Rubiaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceae) named after the madder (Rubia tinctoria), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. Among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and Sierre Leone peach, besides many plants noted for the beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms..
Coffee :: Coffee (n.) 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..
Caffeic :: Caffeic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, coffee..
Quinic :: Quinic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or connected with, quinine and related compounds; specifically, designating a nonnitrogenous acid obtained from cinchona bark, coffee, beans, etc., as a white crystalline substance..
Aroma :: Aroma (n.) The quality or principle of plants or other substances which constitutes their fragrance; agreeable odor; as, the aroma of coffee..
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