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arabica

arabica

1 4.1
A coffee plant that produces beans for good tasting coffee
  • noun
  • /əˈræbɪkə/
  • Specialized
translation icon : arábica
  • All of them displayed an extreme negative effect on the quantity of wild Arabica growth.
  • arabica beans
  • arabica coffee
  • 100-percent arabica

Examples

  • The general summary is that climate change adversely affects Arabica coffee and the entire coffee industry.

    Blog text (17)
  • These small businesses offered higher quality, carefully roasted Arabica beans to consumers willing to pay double the price of supermarket brands.

    Academic text (2018)
  • This report is supported by the confirmed fact that Arabica is sensitive to climate.

    Blog text (17)
  • Here, it had been anticipated that Arabica would be gone by 2020.

    Blog text (17)
  • The AGPC became Fairtrade International certified in 2009 and began to export green Arabica coffee beans, mainly to the European fair trade market.

    Academic text (2017)
  • By one estimate, Ethiopia is home to 98.8% of Arabica coffee's gene pool.

    Blog text (15)
  • The study from the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, United Kingdom, suggests that Arabica coffee trees could go extinct.

    Blog text (19)
  • As of 2015, she had 2 ha of Arabica coffee plots, 8 inherited from her father; over the previous seven years, Arabica had gradually supplanted the Robusta variety.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Meanwhile, the fair trade minimum price of Arabica washed green beans increased to 140 cents per pound ($3.09/kg) on April 1, 2011.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The arabica coffee beans are known for their smooth flavor and pleasant aroma.

Synonyms

Coffea arabica
vsarabica
  • Specialized
4.6

A plant that produces the beans used to make most coffee

emphasizes its reputation for high quality beans rather than production
Arabian coffee
vsarabica
4.4

A tropical plant that produces the beans used to make most of the world's coffee

is the specific species term that highlights quality of its beans

Compounds

Coffea arabica
  • Specialized
4.6

A plant that produces the beans used to make most coffee

8.5

A widely grown Arabica coffee plant type that produces high quality beans

9.3

Coffee beans or brewed coffee from the Typica Arabica type often used in specialty coffee

Surface Forms

arabica singular
arabicas plural

Etymology

The word arabica comes from the place name Arabia, meaning 'of Arabia'. Because this kind of coffee was long linked to that region, arabica became the name of the Coffea arabica plant, a type of coffee plant known for producing high-quality beans.