coffee

Pronunciation key ( kôf′i ) ( kof′i )

cof•fee [plural term same as singular.]

n.

[It. caffé; Turk. qahveh; Ar. qahwah, drink produced from berries, coffee].

1. Aromatic beverage created from ground roasted beanlike seeds of the tall, tropical plant from the madder (Rubiaceae) family.
2. The seeds, green, roasted and ground used in producing the beverage. They are found in the red berries which grows on the shrub.
3. The shrub.

4. The flavor of coffee or the color which resembles coffee when milk or cream is mixed in, brown.

cof•fee bean

The seed produced within the berries of the coffee plant.

cof•fee ber•ry ( kôf′i-ber′i, kof′i-ber′i ) [pl. COFFEE-BERRIES (-iz)]

Fruit produced by the coffee shrub. The coffee bean.

Taxonomic Hierarchy
Coffee Branch and Berries
Kingdom	Plantae – Vegetal, plants
Subkingdom	Viridaeplantae – green plants
Infrakingdom	Streptophyta – land plants
Division	Tracheophyta – vascular plants
Subdivision	Spermatophytina – spermatophytes, seed plants
Infradivision	Angiospermae – flowering plants, angiosperm
Class	Magnoliopsida
Superorder	Asteranae
Order	Gentianales
Family	Rubiaceae – madders
Genus	Coffea L. – coffee
Direct Children:
Species	Coffea arabica L. – Arabian coffee
Species	Coffea benghalensis B. Heyne ex Schult. – bengal coffee
Species	Coffea canephora Pierre ex A. Froehner – robusta coffee
Species	Coffea congensis A. Froehner – congo coffee
Species	Coffea liberica W. Bull ex Hiern. – Liberian coffee
Species	Coffea stenophylla G. Don
Coffee Plant
Coffee Beans

References and Further Reading

Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language (College Edition) ©1955

Coffea, L., Taxonomic Serial No.: 35189

The Coffee Bean

Coffee

Charleston Coffee Exchange