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COFFEA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Coffee trees

Synonyms:

Coffea; genus Coffea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Coffea"):

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

Holonyms ("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)

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