Arabian coffee

noun

: arabica sense 1

Next to that thicket, Arabian coffee trees are loaded with coffee beans.

—Betty Mohr, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 1999

Arabian coffee is a handsome plant with long, lustrous leaves and dark-red, half-inch wide fruit.

—Charles Reynolds, Ledger (Lakeland, Florida), 2 Aug. 2002

Word History

First Known Use

1674, in the meaning defined above

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