Coffee is the roasted beans or powder from which the drink is made. Brazil harvested 28m bags of coffee in 1991, the biggest crop for four years. superior quality coffee. Tropical evergreen shrub of the genus Coffea, in the madder family, or its seeds, called beans; also the beverage made by brewing the roasted and ground beans with water. Two of the 25 or more species, C. arabica and C. canephora, supply almost all the world's coffee. Arabica coffee is considered to brew a more flavourful and aromatic beverage than Robusta, the main variety of C. canephora. Arabicas are grown in Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Indonesia, Robustas mainly in Africa. The shrub bears bouquets of small white flowers with a jasminelike fragrance. The fruit, 0.5-0.75 in. (13-19 mm) long and red when mature, is called a cherry. Coffee contains large amounts of caffeine, the effects of which have always been an important element in the drink's popularity. Coffee drinking began in 15th-century Arabia. It reached Europe by the mid 17th century and immediately became hugely popular. Coffee is now consumed by about one-third of the world's population
tropical evergreen shrub whose beanlike seeds are roasted and ground to produce a drink of the same name Coffee grows best on frost-free hillsides with moderate rainfall The world's largest produc- ers are Brazil, Colombia, and the Ivory Coast
Stimulating hot black liquid, consumed in great quantity by most hard-working Christians in the USA; the drug of choice for most any occasion One CO calls it ``the elixer of life'' Perhaps an overstatement A few Christians conscientiously abstain from coffee because it contains the drug caffeine
a substance that keeps you awake at night so that you can get up late in the morning (or early afternoon)
a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans; "he ordered a cup of coffee"
a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans; "he ordered a cup of coffee" any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans
{i} strong caffeine beverage made from water filtered through coffee beans; tropical small tree and shrub that produce coffee beans; seed of the coffee tree; mug of coffee; medium to dark brown color
(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