coffee berry

3.1

A fruit on a coffee tree that contains the seeds used to make coffee

noun
/ˈkɔːfi ˈbɛri/

: cereza de café

After harvesting, the farmers transported the coffee berries to the processing facility to extract the seeds.

So I'm going to to enjoy the rest of these coffee berries.

Examples

For those unfamiliar, Kopi Luwak is made from coffee berries eaten.

Blog text (1)
It's got so many coffee berries on this tree.
It also shells coffee berries.

Academic text (2011)
As part of the experiment, researchers collected coffee berries that had been visited by the female flies to determine whether the hidden eggs were infertile.

Academic text (2000)
The sheller is adjustable and can shell coffee berries, shea nuts, and jatropha seeds.

Academic text (2011)
The huiler replaced the wasteful and time-consuming mortar and pestle that were used to clean coffee berries.

Academic text (2004)
PHOTO (COLOR): A female medfly pumps eggs through her ovipositor into the soft outer layers of a ripe coffee berry. (K7022-6)

Academic text (1996)
The workers carefully picked the ripe coffee berries from the tree to prepare them for roasting.
Many birds are attracted to the sweet flavor of coffee berries, often feasting on them before the harvest.

Surface Forms

coffee berry singular

coffee berries plural

Morphology

coffee + berry

The compound 'coffee berry' is a straightforward noun+noun composition: a 'berry' associated with 'coffee', so a learner who knows 'coffee' and 'berry' can infer it denotes the fruit of the coffee plant that contains the seed. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and requires no idiomatic or metaphorical knowledge.

Etymology

Coffee berry names the small red berry that grows on the coffee tree. Inside each berry is the 'seed' people call a 'coffee bean', so coffee berry means the fruit that holds the seed used to make coffee.