coffee tree

any tree, as Coffea arabica, yielding coffee beans.

Origin of coffee tree

First recorded in 1735–45

The fruit of the coffee-tree is a deep-red berry not quite so large as a cherry.

Commercial Geography |Jacques W. Redway
The coffee-tree may be cultivated in almost any soil that is fertile; it thrives best, however, in red soil.

Commercial Geography |Jacques W. Redway
Coffee covered with the skin is called boun, and the coffee-tree, boun-tree (sejar et boun).

All About Coffee |William H. Ukers
It was he who planted the fine old trees which now shade the lawn; among them the coffee-tree so much admired.

The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 |Various

Thus far we had not seen a rubber-tree, vanilla-vine, coffee-tree, or anything else that we would accept as a gift.

A Journey in Southeastern Mexico |Henry Howard Harper

coffee tree

any of several rubiaceous trees of the genus Coffea, esp C. arabica, the seeds of which are used in the preparation of the beverage coffee

short for Kentucky coffee tree