coffee tree
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- noun
- /ˈkɔːfi tri/
:
árbol de café
- Many farmers cultivate coffee trees in tropical regions, as they thrive in warm climates with plenty of sunlight.
- Kentucky coffee tree
Examples
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The study from the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, United Kingdom, suggests that Arabica coffee trees could go extinct.
Blog text (19) -
Contrary to belief, coffee trees love full sun.
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The coffee trees are filled with beans, just starting to ripen.
Blog text (2) -
We pruned the coffee trees and put fallen leaves and twigs around the coffee stems.
Fiction book (2001) -
They use no tractors, no mechanical harvesters, and no fancy machinery to tend their coffee trees.
Academic text (1997) -
As the coffee trees flourished, and after the sale of the first coffee harvest, the flow of young men to coastal plantations slowed to a trickle, and the local population began to grow.
Academic text (1991) -
While walking through the plantation, we admired the tall, green coffee trees that provide the beans for our favorite drink.
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The coffee tree, known for its aromatic beans, requires careful maintenance to produce high-quality coffee.
Synonyms
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A tropical shrub or small tree that produces seeds used for a hot drink
A tropical plant like a small tree that produces coffee beans
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a small tropical tree cultivated for its seeds (coffee beans)' is directly derivable from combining 'coffee' (the Coffea plant or its product) with 'tree' (a perennial woody plant). This noun–noun composition denotes a tree that produces coffee and is a common, cross-linguistically transparent construction that a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand.
Etymology
The name coffee tree comes from the simple image of a tree that grows coffee beans. These small trees bear red cherries whose seeds are the beans we roast for coffee, so the name means 'the plant that produces coffee beans'.